…You cant stop me from visiting Buhari-Ndoma Egba

By Levinus Nwabughiogu

ABUJA-For leading a delegation to visit the president-elect, a forum of concerned elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross Rivers on Sunday lambasted the Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, calling him “a gold digger.”

The group however vowed to resist any attempt by the Senate leader to foist himself on the Cross Rivers chapter of APC, saying “only a few weeks ago they were vociferous in their opposition to General Buhari’s ambition, raising dubious, sectional and religious sentiments.”

A statement jointly signed in Abuja by Hon. Eyo Nsa Ekpo, Hon. Ekeng Iwatt Effiom, Engr. Cyprian Oyom Igban, Engr Agim Lawrence Ikwen, Capt. Oyo Ita and Elder David Okon, said that they would do everything possible to resist the antics of the people they described as members of “Any Government In Power (AGIP).”

The group was not happy that Egba as a three time Senator failed to protect the interest of their people.

“The Concerned elders are however disturbed by the timing of this visit and the demands tabled before our President-elect. Chief Victor Ndoma Egba has been prominent part of decision making process in Cross Rivers state and Nigeria as a three-time senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, majority whip in his second term and majority leader in his third term. It was in his tenure Cross Rivers state finally lost Bakasi to Cameroon and witnessed the most degrading form of infrastructural decay.”

“None of us heard Chief Victor Ndoma Egba raising any voice in the Senate when Cross Rivers state was raped first by the Federal Republic of Nigeria with the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon without the consent of her people, then by Akwa Ibom state resulting in the lost of our oil wells and land territories”, the statement added.

Meanwhile, in a swift reaction, the Senate Leader, Sunday said that no one can stop him from visiting or associating with the President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari.

He said it was within his constitutional right to associate with anyone he deemed necessary.