Leading PDP aspirant in Akwa Ibom, Umana, decamps to APC with 28,000 members

A lot of alignment and realignment is still going on in the polity, thus changing the political calculations of 2015 by the day, OluFamous.Com observed.

The former Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government (SSG), Obong Umana Okon Umana, caused a stir in Akwa Ibom State on Friday as he led over 28,000 leaders and supporters of PDP to decamp to APC.

Obong Umana, who was a frontline governorship aspirant in PDP, was received by the leader and National Working Committee of APC at a rally held at the ancestral ground of the Ibibios, the Asan Ibibio.

National leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, Governors of Rivers and Kano states and all the Presidential aspirants of the APC except Mohammudu Buhari were present to receive the PDP massive decampees.

At a colourful ceremony, Obong Umana and his supporters were presented with bundle of brooms to effect change in Akwa Ibom State and they were charged, “You must use the broom fearless and effectively to sweep those that destroy the Nigeria. nation”.

While welcoming the decampees, the National Chairman of the APC said the position of the party was to create a new Nigeria and accordingly asked members of the party to get their voter cards as it was the channel for change in the country.

APC, he said, had a zero tolerance for corruption, pointing out that one of the problems of ruling party was corruption which had destroyed everything in Nigeria under the watch of the PDP administration.

“We have worked out in paper the number of jobs we are going to provide for our youth when we come to power. APC knows those who are abusing security in the country. We will take care of the need of our security, making sure they are satisfied, making sure they are committed to the security of the country”, he said.