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2023: Senator Akpan, 5,000 others join YPP from PDP in A’Ibom

There is apprehension in the Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom as one of its foremost gubenatorial aspirants, Senator Bassey Akpan and 5,000 supporters and well-wishers officially joined the Young Progressive Party (YPP) on Monday.

Akpan, who is the Senator representing Akwa Ibom North East and Senate Committee chairman on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), resigned his membership of PDP last week.

The ceremony which held in his native Ibiono Ibom Eastern Ward 1 was witnessed by a tumultuous crowd of supporters and well-wishers where he completed all the party membership membership registration formalities before the ward chairman while his card was presented to him and his wife by the state chairman, Pastor Nyenime Andy, on behalf of the party.

While welcoming him and others into the new party, Andy said YPP has become the fastest growing party in the state with the senator’s entrance.

Akpan in response said that his new move has ushered in a new political era in Akwa Ibom.

“Today, a new Akwa Ibom births. Akwa Ibom for you and Akwa Ibom for me. Akwa Ibom where there will be justice for all”, he said, commending Pastor Andy for rejecting all financial inducements from dubious elements to do wrong.” He explained.

The Senator pledged that he and his teeming supporters were joining the party to help build and improve the foundation so that it can form the next government of Akwa Ibom state.

He said 2023 would be about “character, competence and capacity”, assuring that he wouod never let Akwa Ibom people down.

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