Senate leader Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) has blamed Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party for the party's defeat in the just concluded elections.   

According to LEADERSHIP, he made these statements over the weekend while delivering a paper at the induction course for legislators-elect of the 8th National Assembly at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.

He said, ''After the last so-called primaries, there was a lot of traffic out of the PDP and no corresponding traffic into it. The party simply imploded under the weight of governors’ impunity and arrogance. The PDP carefully choreographed its downfall. It worked very hard at it and got the result it deserved,” the Senate leader, himself a victim of such scheming.

''Politicians defect because their former party squeezed them out, or – in the case of the PDP recently, that they did not fit within the governors’ calculations''.

''The phenomenon will endure for as long as ownership of political parties is not with its members but with, as in the case of the PDP, governors. Governors (especially of the PDP) have become so overbearing that it is only their wishes that rule. The party (at the national level) suborns its constitution, guidelines and even court orders to please the whims and fancies of governors who appropriate the will of members and impose theirs in its stead.

''This has bred sycophancy, impunity and arrogance, and eroded internal party democracy. Within the parties, especially the PDP, government is no longer of the people and for the people; it is now government of governors, by governors and for governors. This has resulted in brazen injustice and restricted the political space for many.