It is no longer news that Mr Umana Okon Umana has been disgraced out of
office as the Secretary to the Government of Akwa Ibom State in a
manner yet to be seen in any part of the world. Suffice it to state here
that the powers-that-be in Abuja have rejected his controversial and
contentious nomination for the position
of the MD of... the NDDC which was packaged for him as a soft-landing
and face-saving measure. A classic case of a schemer being schemed out
of the scheme of things.
The fact that he misused his very
powerful office to wage mindless and unrelenting attacks on the party
constitution and its zoning and rotation principle cannot be contested.
The fact that he was the big masquerade behind the well-orchestrated
attempts to rubbish,discredit,undermine and supplant the time-tested and
honored zoning and rotation policy of the party is a common knowledge.
His blind and ill-timed ambition to become the next governor of the
state come 2015 really drove him mad and he got so desperate that he
would not spare anything and indeed anybody perceived as not being
favorably disposed to his ambition.
His blind ambition led him
into hunting, maiming and crippling so many people politically and
economically. In fact it was a capital offense to even be perceived as
nursing a governorship ambition or opposing his ambition. He saw the
then chairman of the NDDC, AMB. Sam Edem as a threat, both his
domination of Nsit Ubium politics and future political ambition and he
carefully and covertly plotted his fall. What about Senator Effiong Bob?
He also saw him as a threat to his indisputable domination of the
politics of Nsit Ubium and his dream to become governor in 2015 and he
mobilized against the re-election of the senator in the 2011 election,
using the zoning and rotation policy of the party. It is thus an irony
of history that it was the same zoning and rotation principle that he
waged serious battle to undermine and supplant just to pave way for his
evil ambition.
Was it not the same Umana that plotted,
instigated and fueled the rift between Governor Akpabio and Senator John
Udoedehe because he wanted to get rid of every Ibibio or Uyo senatorial
person that could rival him in the government, so that he would be the
only cock to crow as far as Ibibio or Uyo Senatorial District are
concerned?
Who caused Akpabio to fall out with Obong Attah? Umana.
Who plotted the removal of Prince Uwem Ita Etuk as the state chairman of the PDD? Umana Okon Umana.
He saw the principled stand of the former state chairman of the party
on the zoning and rotation policy of the party as a serious threat to
his evil ambition, hence, he had to be demolished.
What about
Bishop Samuel Akpan? The same Umana made sure he was demolished because
he was not comfortable with his rising profile, popularity and towering
influence. He was afraid if the Bishop was allowed to progress the way
he was going, his ambition would be punctured and he would not be the
only cock to crow in the Ibibio and Uyo senatorial district politics.
Who instigated the failed impeachment plot that caused the former
deputy governor, Obong Nsima Ekere, to resign?.Umana Okon Umana. He saw
the former deputy governor as serious threat to his plot to contest and
win the 2015 governorship election.
Have we forgotten Otuekong
Emmanuel Ibiok and how the same Umana Umana ensured his demolition
simply because he saw the young man as a threat to his domination of
Nsit Ubium politics and his inordinate ambition to be governor in 2015?
Who plotted the nomination of Amb. Assam Assam an ambassador just to
get him out of the country so that the learned Senior Advocate of
Nigeria may not constitute a threat to his 2015 ambition.
As
SSG, his fear was the beginning of wisdom to many politicians. His
sycophants had promoted him to the level and status of a demi-god that
must be feared and worshiped and he was indeed feared and worshiped by
many that stood for nothing. Members of the State Executive Council were
not spared his blackmail and intimidation antics and tactics.
Commissioners that were perceived to be nursing governorship ambition or
being favorably disposed to his ambition were marked by him for
demolition. They were under constant threat, blackmail and intimidation
by him.
He bulldozed everybody and everywhere. The party
leaders were not spared his antics. It was either you endorsed him or
you risked removal from your office. We cannot forget the jamboree
called meeting of Uyo senatorial district PDP where he induced and
intimidated them to purportedly pass a resolution that Uyo senatorial
district shall contest the 2015 governorship election.
The list of victims of his blind ambition is endless. Those that we know and those that we don't know.
But in the final analysis, what happened? The hunter became the hunted.
The untouchable was not only touched, but hounded, rubbished, disgraced
and chased out of office. A master of wicked intrigues was beaten to
his own game and today he cannot venture near the same government house
again and his sychophants had long deserted him to his fate. He has been
trapped by same trap he set for others.
He dedicated all his
time and resources to fighting, hunting and crippling people so that he
could be governor in 2015 but today, he has gone down in history as the
most hated, unpopular, mischievous and disgraced politician ever in
Nigeria and his inordinate ambition to govern the state in 2015 has died
a natural death and can never be resurrected. He is down and out. His
ambition is stillborn
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