Senator Bassey Akpan was removed from the Senate as the senator representing the Uyo Senatorial District by an Abuja-based Federal High Court after he joined the Young Progressives Party, or YPP. In the decision on Friday, the presiding judge, Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu, declared Senator Akpan’s seat vacant and commanded INEC to hold a bye election to fill the position. The Judge further decreed that the Senator must return to the National Assembly all funds and benefits received after July 2022, the date on which he defected peacefully from the PDP to the YPP. Having resigned his membership in the