About 37,874 members of opposition parties in Akwa Ibom State on Friday, March 22, 2024, joined the state’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The defectors include members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Young Progressives Party, YPP, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, and the Social Democratic Party, SDP, among others.
Speaking on behalf of the returnees, former state secretary of APC Nkereuwem Enyong Ekere and Emmanuel Uko Etteh of YPP expressed readiness to collapse their structures and work for PDP. Receiving them at the PDP Secretariat, Atan Offot, Uyo, Governor Umo Eno admonished them not to disrespect and attack their leaders, especially at the centre. 'The PDP I run does not attack leaders. We have to support leaders and not fight them because, as a pastor, I am trained to respect people.
In his welcome address, the state PDP chairman, Aniekan Akpan, described the reception rally as the mother of all rallies in the state, only second to what was witnessed in December 2022. The party boss assured the returnees, who are mostly former leaders of the PDP, of full reintegration into the family.
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