...Targets Annang chieftains and Ibibio allies, says Annang will suffer for Akpabio's action
The
Akwa Ibom state Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC,
Obong Umana Okon Umana has told insiders in his camp, the is on a revenge
mission to silence what he calls the "Annang Mafia" in the state. A
top member of his campaign team who confided in our reporter boasted that,
Umana, will become Governor of Akwa Ibom state by all means possible and then,
he will go after the Annang people who he said have reigned in the state since
former Governor Godswill Akpabio came to power in 2007.
The
source who corroborated what, the factional Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr
Ita Awak has been saying stressed that, the Annang billionaires club, will be
swept aside as Umana will rope them all before the Economic and Financial
crimes Commission, EFCC and confiscate their properties and investments so
that, for the next 50 years, no Annang man can stand up to him in terms of money
power or become effective politically in the state.
Those
who Umana is said to have penciled down have his former boss and friend, now
Senate Minority Leader , Chief Godswill Akpabio. Others from Ikot Ekpene
Senatorial District are, former Commissioner of Work, Chief Don Etim, Barr.
Emmanuel Enoidem, commissioner for Commerce and industry, his Special duties
counterpart, Etido Inyang, the member representing Essien Udim State
constituency and former chairman of the are, Rt. Hon Nse Ntuen. Others are, the
Akpbios including, Sir Emem Akpabio, the State PDP secretary, Ibanga Akpabio,
Prince Ukpong Akpabio who was a former special assistant to the former governor
and the governors and others unnamed in the great Akpabio family of Ukana Ikot
Ntuen.
The
dragnet however covers some other chieftains of PDP in Abak 5 zone of the
district and what they said arew ibibio collaborators where the names of
Senator Bassey Albert, Senator Effiong Bob, Senator Anietie Okon and Prince
Uwem Ita Etuk and Chief Paul Ekpo top the list. A political commentator,
Surveyor Effiong Iyamba however dismissed Umana's antics as a ruse, and a known
plot of the APC to harass and intimidate opponents as is ongoing by the
President Buhari led administration whicj will fail.
He
said, Umana himself is not clean as he was part of the system as the so-called
Engine room and Mr Stabilizer of the system who devised strategies to loot the
state. He argued that, there is no bigger thief than Umana who is the richest
Ibibio man Alive and who cannot explain the source of his wealth.
Umana
only looted akwa Ibom and till date still cannot exhaust monies he stashed away
from the defunct Habib and All States Trust bank and others since 2003 and is
still doling them out. He said umana's witch hunt will fail as he cannot even
win election in his Local Government area where the speaker of the akwa Ibom
state House of Assembly, Barr. Onofiok Luke holds away with Senator Bob, Amb.
Sam Edem, Otuekong Emmanuel Ibiok among others.
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