I left PDP for APC, to serve my constituents better, says Senator Enoh

Senator John Owan Enoh, Senator representing Cross River Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly has said that he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because the interest of his senatorial district was not protected and joining his new found party, the APC, the interest of his senatorial district was protected.

He said in 2019 he would be evaluated on the basis of the work he has done for the people of the state adding that in his two years in the Senate he had done 44 water projects, 12 roads and culverts, attracted employment opportunities to so many youths of the constituents and so far 4,023 have benefited from his education support intervention scheme across the 66 wards of his senatorial districts.

Speaking in Ikom Local Government Area of the state, Enoh who was presenting his mid-term scorecard said “Since I joined the APC, I have found myself coming back to the way politics ought to be played, that you have no reason not to follow me to APC, please come and join me.

“There is no reason if you not decide to follow this wind of change that is blowing across the central Senatorial District” and urged the people to compare his work with that of the governor, “Please just compare my work with that of the governor when he was a senator.”

The National Assembly lawmaker stated that he took a bold step to defect to his new party because he had a conviction that in the APC, people of the Central Senatorial District can become liberated from the whims and caprices of those who had the erroneous belief that the senatorial district is their personal estate.

He said that the decision to pull out from the PDP and move to the APC was not a decision to toy with stressing that he had no regret in taking the bold step that he took.

The former chairman for Finance and Appropriation Committee in the House of Representatives maintained that the APC was the only party that could offer him a fresh opportunity for open and inclusive politics.

The former University of Calabar staff turned politician said, “Majority of our people in the Central Senatorial District have been excluded by the state controlled PDP and I believe that the interest of my senatorial district will best be served in an alternative platform like the APC.”

He maintained that the mandate given to him by his people to represent them in the Senate in 2015 came with a huge challenge and expectation of becoming responsive to the plights of his constituent at the point of their need.

“When you win election to represent a people, you do not just do things that concern you alone, but you strive to do things that will impact positively on the lives of the people. Do those things that you know will excite the people who elected you,” he said.

Enoh said, “I found out that so many people who supported me to contest against former Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba, did that not just because they loved me but because they hated Victor Ndoma-Egba.

“It was more because they hated Sen. Victor Ndoma Egba. Some of these our leaders did not support me because of my work and the love that they had for me, but because of the hatred that they had for Ndoma-Egba.

“Why do I say this? I expected these leaders to at least give me a chance to see if I will fail or succeed. They should have given me a chance to see if I will do well or not, instead these leaders started showing me the real motives why they supported me,” Enoh said.

Edem Edem, Calabar