e-NIGERIA! was informed that more defections is set to hit, one time ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Report has it that barring any last minute change of mind, former Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) set to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Senator who was among the list of Senators who didn’t make it back to the hallowed Chamber in this political era is said to be in secret meeting with leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC concerning his defection plans.
The senator’s decision to abandon the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it was learnt, is not unconnected with the way he has been sidelined in the running of the PDP in Cross River State, where he hails from.
Almost all his supporters in the state are said to have defected to the APC and have been urging him to follow suit.
Ndoma-Egba was elected into the Senate in 2003 on the platform of the PDP to represent Cross River Central.
He became Senate Leader in 2011.
But former Governor Liyel Imoke allegedly turned the machinery of the party against him in the run-up to the 2015 general elections.
Sources in APC also said Ndoma-Egba is highly priced by the party to enable it make an in-road into Cross River State and the South-south.
The 59 year-old Victor Ndoma-Egba is a Nigerian politician who has been a member of the national senate for Cross River State since 2003. He is a product of the University of Lagos.
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