Party members numbering over 800 of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in
Nsit Ubium Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom, on Saturday defected to the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Leading the defectors to the PDP, the APC Chairman in the
council area, Mr Aniefiok Ekah, said that the defectors had endured severe hunger
in APC and could therefore no longer continue to tolerate such.
Ekah, who submitted every document belonging to APC in his
possession for destruction, however, appealed to the PDP not to treat the
returnees as outcasts.
He explained that some of them left PDP in 2015 due to
cheating by some party leaders, who refused to protect their interests.
“This is the membership register, registration forms and
every other item in my possession.
“They were all given to me by APC, please burn them to
ashes, there is nothing like APC again in Nsit Ubium.
“We left PDP in the first place because of cheating, middle
men were short-changing us of what was meant for party supporters, but we have
suffered so much hunger in the APC,” Ekah said.
The state Chairman of PDP, Mr Paul Ekpo, while receiving the
defectors, thanked them for the bold steps taken and pledged to fully integrate
them into the PDP family.
Ekpo said that PDP in the state would continue accord
importance to the interest and welfare of members, adding that the deflectors
would be full integrated into the party.
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