Fake Defection: APC Accuses PDP of Forgery

By Mfon Okon

The recent defection rally organized by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which it claimed was a mother of all defection has been described as nothing but hallucinated lies and fear of losing next year's general elections in the State to All Progressives Congress, APC.

PDP in the rally said that over twenty thousand members of All Progressives Congress (APC) dumped the party for PDP.

The counter claim came from one of the defectors whose name was published as a prominent defector from Senator John Akapnudoedehe camp in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area, Engr. Uduakobong Okpo.

Okpo currently is the Secretary Planning Committee of APC Campaign Organization, also a former Senatorial Aspirant of the Party, told newsmen in a media chat at Obong Nsima Ekere Campaign Ground that he was surprised to hear that his name was among the names of decampees from APC to PDP.

According to him, the sad and unexpected publication by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is still a surprise.

He further explained that the said event which was conducted at Ibom Hall ground in Uyo, where he and other twenty-nine Stakeholders of the Party were alleged to have defected from APC to PDP as a blatant lie, as they were attending a Party meeting in Eket Local Government Area.

To make it clear and factual, Okpo introduced the twenty-nine alleged members and other prominent party members which PDP claimed to have defected from PDP to APC to newsmen. He said they were attaining  the Reconciliation Committee, South-South organized by the national body of the Party to reconcile all aggrieved members of the Party who lost the just concluded primaries in the State, held at Obong Nsima Ekere Campaign Ground Four Lane, Uyo.

Okpo urged members of the Party and entire Akwa Ibom voters who are preparing to vote PDP out of power to disregard such defection rumour, as no genuine APC members defected to PDP as it was speculated on Monday.

He wondered how him who have suffered a lot for Party would dump the Party and embrace a sinking party called PDP, even now that victory for the Party is assure in 2019.

Okpo futher assured that all the names of defectors published and presented to the public as names of those who dumped the Party to PDP are all fake names, as they are all members of the People Democratic Party, PDP.

Also speaking, the Chairman Information and Strategic Committee and also the Spokesperson of Obong Nsima Ekere Campaign Organization, Mr. Eseme Eyiboh, thanked Engr. Uduakobong Okpo and other Stakeholders of the party who were alleged to have dumped the Party for PDP, for their boldness to come out openly and present themselves to the public so as to differentiate the truth from lies.

Eyiboh said that it is very unfortunate that the day the fake defection ceremony was conducted, was the second year anniversary of the unfortunate mishap of Reigner's Church Collapse occurred.

The Spokesperson of the campaign said that Reigner's Church Collapse was a very sad experience to lot families in the State, as many people lost their lives.

 He added that it would have been very proper for the State Government to use the money used to organize the fake defection rally to commiserate with the families who lost their loved ones.

Eyiboh further hinted that if the State Government is very fair and considerate to plight of Akwa Ibom people, it should be very kind enough to implement the White Paper Reports of the Commission of inquiry set after the sad incident rather than wasting it on a useless event.

©The Sensor Newspaper

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