By Kingston Obung Calabar
Th e senator, representing Cross River Central, John Owan Enoh, has berated his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for pitching him against the then Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma Egba, in 2015 elections, saying those leaders supported him so he could work for them. Owan Enoh, who is the chairman, Senate committee on Finance, defected from the PDP to APC three weeks ago after 18 years as a PDP lawmaker. Speaking while presenting his mid-term report titled “My Score Card” in Ikom, Central Cross River state, at the weekend, he said: “I contested election in 2015 against Senator Victor Ndoma Egba under the platform of PDP but I later found out that those leaders in our State who supported me did so not because of how much love they had for me but because of how much they hated Senator Victor Ndoma Egba.
“If they supported me because they loved me, they should have given me a chance to see whether I succeed or fail. But from day one after I got elected, those people started showing the real motives why they supported me. For two years as Senator, I found myself playing the opposition at the National level, and was also made to play opposition at the State level. “Th ey felt that they sent me to the Senate so I could work for them. With what I discovered, I cannot work together with those people anymore. “I decided that the only way I could represent my
people well was to seek an alternative platform. Th e reason I left PDP to APC was not so much because of crisis in the PDP but because of the local politics in my State, my people were marginalised and discriminated.” Not sparing Governor Ben Ayade in his two-hour detailed account of his stewardship, he said: “Being in government is about service, not to just display power. It is not about control. If you must control, it must be on the basis of the good work you are doing and not something that you force on people.”
