PDP paying price of impunity –Ndoma-Egba

The Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has said the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) is paying the price for impunity, which caused its abysmal
performance at the polls.



This was just as he advised that he if the xenophobic attacks in the Durban
city on foreigners by South Africans persisted, Nigerians living in that
country should be evacuated for their safety.
Interacting with newsmen in Calabar yesterday on the state of affairs in the
country, Ndoma-Egba said the PDP became mentally lazy.
“When mental laziness comes in, it breeds impunity and impunity breeds
arrogance. That is where we are and we are paying a very high price for
impunity, which has now become a culture in our party.
“One big lesson that we’ve learnt from these elections is that impunity is
not sustainable. Impunity can only hold for a while and shall crumble at the
long run, and it is going to be very costly when it crumbles. We have seen
the price we are paying. With our own complicity, the party was weakened
long before the elections.
“As far as I am concerned, PDP needed this shock treatment. We needed to
be shocked back into reality. This is an opportunity, rather than be boastful
and arrogant; to go back and do proper introspection.
“If we think what is going on can endure much longer, then we are living in
self-denial. Impunity is not sustainable. It is not sustainable in PDP, and I
believe the All Progressives Congress (APC) would have learnt a lesson
too, that it will not be sustainable there. It cannot be sustainable
anywhere. That is the biggest lesson from the elections as far as I am
concerned,” he stated.
The Senate Leader, who traced the crisis to last year’s primaries, said the
impunities were more pronounced in PDP strongholds and that despite the
initial signals, the leaders behaved like demi-gods.
He said: “When the party depreciates to the point where it becomes the
personal property of somebody, it will implode in the person’s pocket. A
party is supposed to be a vehicle for ideas, but has now become a vehicle
for us to perfect sycophancy.”
He advised that for democracy to take root in the country “political parties
should be owned by members of the parties and not individuals, no matter
how powerful there are,” adding that, “this is an opportunity for the PDP to
recreate and reinvent itself, and for other parties to learn.”