Ndoma-Egba Petitions PDP, Seeks Dissolution Of C’River Exco

The crisis over the recent ward congress in Cross Rivers State took a new turn yesterday as the Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), has called on the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to dissolve the Cross River State executive of the party.
Ndoma-Egba, in a petition to the national leadership of the party, said the Cross Rivers State executive under the chairmanship of Ntufam John Okon, instigated the sealing of state party headquarters ahead of the party’s delegate elections which scuttled the election of national delegates in the state.
He therefore called on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to take over all other processes relating to the outstanding aspects of the party’s activities.
The alleged power tussle between Ndoma-Egba and governor Liyel Imoke over the former’s decision to return to the Senate, resulted in the shutting down of the party’s secretariat penultimate Saturday.
According to a petition addressed to the national chairman of PDP, Dr Adamu Mu’azu, and dated November 10, 2014, Ndoma-Egba alleged that “Mr. Chairman, in spite of his premature celebration, it is obvious that the state chairman is clearly disappointed by the outcome of the November 1, 2014 ward congresses in Cross River State followed by his ineptitude in not taking advantage of the appeal process already put in place by the party.
“To demonstrate his frustrations, he detained members of the panel that came to conduct the November 8, 2014 national delegates elections.”
But Okon has described Ndoma-Egba’s petition, calling for the dissolution of the executive committee of the party in the state as mere grandstanding.
According to the state PDP chairman, the leadership of the party in the state will not sit idling by while a few moneybags subvert the will of party members as expressed in the ward congress.
He said the disciplinary actions taken against some members of the party was taken by the full executive committee of the party.