{"id":165872,"date":"2025-06-06T23:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp"},"modified":"2025-06-07T00:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:16:44","slug":"ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Ememobong Resigns as Akwa Ibom Commissioner, Stays PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Information and Special Duties, Ini Ememobong, has tendered his resignation letter to Governor Eno Umo after the latter dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for the All Progressives Party.<\/p>\n<p>Ememobong disclosed this in a statement on his Facebook account on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, his resignation was due to his unwillingness to join the APC together with his erstwhile principal, Governor Umo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBehold another bend. Today, I have tendered my resignation to the Governor in compliance with his directive that his appointees who are unwilling to join him on the political journey to the APC should resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I cannot question or fault the governor\u2019s personal decision, I am unable to join in that sojourn. My decision is borne out of my belief in politics with principles and my long-standing opposition to that political platform, which is daily validated by numerous Nigerians across many sectors,\u201d he stated partly on his Facebook account on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the governor, on Friday officially dumped the PDP for APC.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier he had told members of his cabinet who do not want to decamp with him to resign<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Information and Special Duties, Ini Ememobong, has tendered his resignation letter to Governor Eno Umo after the latter dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for the All Progressives Party. Ememobong disclosed this in a statement on his Facebook account on Friday. According to him, his resignation was due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":165871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[371,34,17688,254,65],"class_list":["post-165872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-apc","tag-ememobong","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ememobong Resigns as Akwa Ibom Commissioner, Stays PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Information and Special Duties, Ini Ememobong, has tendered his resignation letter to Governo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ememobong Resigns as Akwa Ibom Commissioner, Stays PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Information and Special Duties, Ini Ememobong, has tendered his resignation letter to Governo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-06T22:05:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-06T23:16:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749239257.451306.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1424\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"802\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ememobong Resigns as Akwa Ibom Commissioner, Stays PDP\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-06T22:05:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-06T23:16:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp\"},\"wordCount\":209,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749239257.451306.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akwa Ibom\",\"APC\",\"Ememobong\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ememobong-resigns-as-akwa-ibom-commissioner-stays-pdp\",\"name\":\"Ememobong Resigns as Akwa Ibom Commissioner, Stays PDP - 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