PROFILE; Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba SAN

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The Authority Icon: VICTOR NDOMA-EGBA For articulating significant positions as a national parliamentarian to leverage society and for using the instrumentality of law to impact his region and country; for demonstrating that with focus, discipline and commitment, dreams can indeed be achieved, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba is The AUTHORITY Icon.   Lawyer and politician Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba was born on 8 March 1956 in Ikom, Cross River State. He has an LL.B degree from the University of Lagos and an LLM degree from the University of Calabar. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1978 and was elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2004. He has been Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Calabar Branch, and President of the Calabar Chamber of Commerce. He has also been Director of the Cross River Basin and Rural Development Authority, and Commissioner for Works & Transport. Running as a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Victor Ndoma-Egba was elected as senator in the 5th (2003–2007) National Assembly representing Cross River Central Senatorial District, and was reelected in 2007 for a further four-year term. He was a member of senate committees on Upstream Petroleum Resources, Human Rights and Legal Matters, and Information and Media, and deputy chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Nigerian Senate. In May 2008, Ndoma-Egba spoke in favor of reform of the Nigeria Police Act, which came into effect on April 1, 1943 and has essentially been unchanged since that time. In May 2009, he accused the Action Congress Party of delays in listing the 37 Local Council Development Areas in Lagos State in the constitution. Representative Bola Gbabijo refuted these charges. In January 2013, Victor Ndoma-Egba said that the solution to Cross River community clashes was the National Boundary Commission becoming involved in the demarcation of boundary lines. He was reelected as Senator for Cross River Central on 26 April 2011 on the PDP platform, winning 143,537 votes, while the runner up was Patric Iwara of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), who gained 47,656 votes. More recently, citing irreconcilable differences, he quit the PDP Ndoma-Egba is happily married with three children.