28 Aug Group Seeks Another Term For Ndoma-Egba
A group, which goes by the name “Cross River State Legion for Democratic Advancement” (CRSLDA) is leading a campaign for the re-election of Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba.
According to the members, Ndoma-Egba has performed creditably at the National Assembly therefore, he deserve to go back “so that Cross River maintains its tempo of influence at the national level”.
In a press release issued in Calabar and signed by its president, Comrade Leko Akpama Inah; secretary, Rosemary A. Egbe and public relations officer, Dominic Bassey Abung, CRSLDA said the Senate Leader has attained such a height in national affairs that his re- election in 2015 will mean more good things for Cross River.
The group which has most of its members drawn from the central senatorial district of the state said it was making a case for the senatorial district because the senate leader has proved beyond reasonable doubt what effective representation is, more so that he has become a ranking senator with all the privileges attached to it.
It urged the people of Cross River Central Senatorial District to note that the stability of the Fourth Republic was a manifestation of the maturity of the legislature despite long years of military rule in the country stressing that “the maturity has come about as a result of the fact that most members of the State and National Assemblies have served for at least two terms”
“Cross River State for the first time in Nigeria’s political history has produced a senator who by 2015 would have completed three unprecedented straight terms in the senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba [SAN] representing Cross River Central Senatorial District personifies all that is desirable about having capable personalities continue as legislators as long as they are willing, ready and still able to serve their nation in that capacity”, the release stressed. The group maintained that since his election into the senate in 2003, the Senate leader has brought his experience in law practice to bear on his legislative responsibilities, a development which has ensured that “since Dr. Joseph Wayas in 1979-83, he has been the most visible and influential senator from Cross River State in the Nigerian senate”.
Ndoma-Egba was said to be making steady progress in his legislative career as he became deputy Senate leader in 2007 and Senate Leader in 2011, a feat CRSLDA believes was a sign of better things to come and that such a rise can only be attained by ranking senators by virtue of their long stay at the parliament as wrell as quality of their representation.
“The peculiar thing about the legislature is that individual legislators have their individual bureaucracies meaning that a third term senator for instance wont be handing over anything to his successor from the same senatorial district if he were to vacate his seat.
The new rep has to start all over, queuing behind ranking legislators to even be appointed chair of major committees”, CRSLDA added.
The group said the American presidential system which Nigeria copied from was vibrant because the congress is made up of reputable law makers whose successive presidents are respected as a result of their longstanding contributions in the legislature and implored Nigerians to ensure that those who tried and can be trusted continue to serve them.
“We in CRSLDA made up of fair minded individuals cutting across political leanings with membership spread across the three senatorial districts of the state therefore, call on our people to dispassionately assess Distinguished Senator Victor Ndoma-Egbas representation in the senate and clamour for his return to the senate in 2015”, the release said.
A new senator, CRSLDA argued, w7ould not automatically become Senate Leader nor “will he be able to influence the extension of democracy dividends the way Ndoma-Egba has done and will do even more as one of the longest serving senators in Nigeria in 2015? The answer is definitely “no”.
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