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YPP sacks 8 state chairmen, appoints interim chair for Akwa Ibom

The Young Progressives Party (YPP) has ratified the permanent removal from office of seven of its state chairmen after initial suspension for various offences bordering on gross misconduct, anti-party and abuse of office.

Those sacked were Prince Harry Omangiman in Rivers, Hough Gwadue in Benue, Remi Ayanlade in Osun, Victor Diala in Imo, Prince Stanley Oyibe in Ebonyi, Sunny Pere Agadabiri in Bayelsa and Francis Nwanua in Delta.

Similarly, the party also appointed Wisdom Udoka, the deputy state chairman, as the interim chairman for the party in Akwa Ibom State.

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This followed the resignation of the former chairperson, Pastor Nyeneime Andy as the YPP chairperson in Akwa Ibom in January, alongside the party governorship candidate, Bassey Albert, after both announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Udoka’s appointment was contained in the communiqué of the 24th National Working Committee (NWC) meeting of the party on Thursday in Abuja and signed by the YPP National Publicity Secretary, Egbeola Wale Martins.

Daily Trust earlier reports that the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the YPP said it had collapsed its structure with that of the APC in the state, when its governorship candidate, deputy governorship candidate, State Executive Committee led by its former chairman and others visited the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio in Ukana, Essien Udim Local Government Area of the state.

However, the party’s national spokesman in a swift reaction, said that the party did not collapse its structures into the APC in Akwa Ibom State.

 

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