Tag: YPP
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2023: OBA Chickens Out?
Barely one week to the 2023 Governorship election, the candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in Akwa Ibom State, Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, might withdraw from the race. Findings revealed that there is palpable tension in the air in the State, following the presidential election in which Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All ... -
YPP Disowns OBA
The Young Progressives Party (YPP), has expressed displeasure towards the manner in which the name of the party has been put to disrepute and ridicule by members of the public owing to the recent conviction and jailing of a Senator, Bassey Albert Akpan. They have also insisted that the offenses for which Bassey Albert has ... -
Corruption: Court Hands OBA 42-Year Prison Term
A Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, on Thursday, 1st December, 2022, sentenced Senator Bassey Albert to 42 years in prison for money laundering and graft. Senator Albert, the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2023 election, was found guilty in all the six-count charges preferred against him by the Economic ... -
YPP Guber Ticket: Court Issues OBA Ultimatum
A Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, has given the Governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the State, Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, and the State Chairman of the party, Pastor Nyenime Andy, 48 hours to file amended processes in a case instituted against them by a member of ... -
Lawmakers Reject OBA’s YPP Largesse
…PLOT TO BUY NYENIME ANDY’S TICKET THICKENS A meeting by Senator Bassey Albert Akpan (OBA) with some former lawmakers and other party stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has met a deadlock with the mass rejection of the Uyo senator’s offer to them in exchange for defections to the Young Peoples Party. Bassey Albert ... -
OBA Sponsors More Litigations Against PDP
Senator Bassey Albert Akpan popularly called OBA has sponsored more law suits against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and all the successful candidates of the party in the just concluded electoral processes in Akwa Ibom State. Two new matters have popped up at the Federal High Court Abuja seeking the nullification of the candidacy of ...