Okobo PDP Suspends Fmr. Deputy Speaker, Felicia Bassey, State Officer, Ors

Okobo PDP Suspends Fmr. Deputy Speaker, Felicia Bassey, State Officer, Ors. Over Disloyalty to State Leadership, Factionalization, Litigation Against Party

The Peoples Democratic Party in Okobo Local Government Area has wielded the big stick against the immediate past Deputy Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Felicia Bassey, a member of the State Exco. of the party, Hon. Mary Unungene and five others, by suspending their membership following their involvement in acts considered to be inimical to the progress and image of the party in local government chapter.

The decision to suspend the errant members was reached at a joint meeting of the Okobo PDP Executive Committee and the Local Government Caucus, presided over by the Chapter Chairman, Mr Ukpong Effiong Edet, at the Chapter Secretariat of the party on Friday, 18th August 2023.

Offences committed by the suspended members were listed in a Communique presented at the end of the meeting and made available to newsmen.

The meeting cited the refusal of the embattled members to honour the directive of the State Chairman of the Party, their continued polarization of the party, as well as the instigation of security agencies and resort to court action against the local government chapter of the party as part of their unconstitutional conducts.

Other affected persons are Hon. Mary Simon, Elder Imoh Effiong Okpo, Mrs Imaobong Oboho, Mr Christian Titus Martin, and Mrs Patricia Silas Akwa whose suit filed against the party was recently struck out by the State High Court in Uyo.

The Communique was signed by about 200 party faithful, including members of the Ukpong Edet-led Chapter Executive Committee, Ward Chairmen and officers of the party, as well as members of the Local Government Caucus of the Party, serving councillors and supervisors in the Local Government Council, among others.