By Emma Una

CALABAR— Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, the Senate Leader, has said that he was not defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC, as was reported in the media.

He added that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with its recent electoral loss was paying a very high price for acts of impunity in the party, occasioned by mental laziness and the inability of the leadership of the party to think.

Senator  Ndoma-Egba, who was reacting to reports that his supporters had left the PDP in droves for the APC, as a prelude to his planned defection to the party, said in the past three years, he had been  shut out from the PDP  decision making process  because the party took a simplistic approach to the dynamics of the developments in the party without recourse to broad based  consultations.

“Mental laziness breeds impunity and impunity breeds arrogance and every situation reinforces itself. If you have small impunity today, if you don’t do anything about it, the impunity would grow and if you have small arrogance today and you don’t do anything about it, it would re-enforce itself by growing. So the PDP is paying a very big price for our own conduct and this is a God sent opportunity for us to wake up and think and I also hope that the APC will learn from what has befallen PDP.”