Akwa Ibom PDP suffers setback as chairman, senator, others defect to APC

 

Former Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State, Chief Otu Ita Otoyo has defected to the All Progressives Congress. He defected alongside a former senator, Aloysius Etok and former member of the House of Representatives, Eseme Eyiboh.


These decampees including former chairman of Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area and many others were received into the party at a prayer summit and reception held in honour of Obong Umana Umana, candidate of the APC in the last governorship election.

The reception followed his victory at the Appeal Court.
The decampees noted that the PDP was no longer the party they once believed in. They lamented that it has been hijacked by a few people.

“Today, we have put to shame people who say what money cannot do, more money will. We did not give these people here anything. We only appealed to their concience, to come together and pray so that the state can be exorcised. The people came here to rescue themselves. What you are seeing is a mass movement. The state is the richest in Nigeria, yet the people are not feeling the impact. Change has come and there is no going back.”