Umanah Writes Governor Akpabio
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE: (AN OPEN LETTER TO
CHIEF SIR (DR.) GODSWILL OBOT AKPABIO
OON)
By Dr. Ime Umanah
Your Excellency, one of the cherished liberties
which I enjoy as an elder statesman in Akwa
Ibom State and Nigeria under our democratic
dispensation, is the liberty to say the truth
and nothing but the truth and say my mind no
matter whose ox is gored. History will be kind
to me that I have never relented in doing this
as regards your eight years of terror and
deceit in Akwa Ibom State.
In the course of your years of mismanagement
of Akwa Ibom State which some of us worked
hard to get created, I had written you several
open letters. In some of them I called for a
change of style in your mismanagement of the
resources of our State. So, for you it has been
a war against Akwa Ibom people. I will dwell
on this but before then, let me first review the
recent changes in Nigeria and your singular
acts that made the change to happen.
With salient scriptures I had admonished you
in previous letters on the transient nature of
power. I counseled you to make amends with
those you have offended. You never headed
my advice but carried on as if you will be
governor for ever. Now, your days as governor
are numbered. I hope you have started to
learn your lessons on the transience of power
from the demise of the People Democratic
Power (PDP)? In less than two months now,
you will fully understand all my lectures on
how ephemeral power and wealth are. You will
see how many of the battalions of hangers-on
that come to worship you now will still come
around.
Soon conscience will call you to task on the
billions of naira of Akwa Ibom State money
you frittered away on your selfish investments
and funding of PDP’s lasts wars on Nigerians.
Power will always end and the vanity of wealth
without honour become pronounced. As
further help I will recommend two stories for
you to read: “The last three wishes of
Alexander the Great” and “The Queen and Her
Four Lovers”. You can easily google up the
stories. I believe they will speak louder than
me.
Now back to PDP: You know most of the
problems that brought down PDP today was
caused by you. Immediately you saw the
billions of naira accruing to Akwa Ibom State,
you became puffed up. You began to isolate
the founders of PDP in Akwa Ibom State.
Buoyed by the petro-billions of the State under
your beck and call you began to build a
fiefdom in which only you called the shots.
Although you never liked President Goodluck
Jonathan when he was vice president, yet you
soon wormed your way into Aso Rock and
continued with your evil at that level.
The internal dismantling of PDP started with
your closeness to the President. You misled
him to destroy the party with the assurance of
our money. You worked for the removal of
Chief Don Etiebet as member of PDP Board of
Trustees. I read in the Daily Independent then
that the President told you to allow Governor
Rotimi Amaechi to do another term as
Chairman of Nigerian Governor’s Forum
(NGF). You told the President to allow you
deal with Governor Amaechi once and for all.
So you pushed for the NGF election to remove
Amaechi contrary to the president’s views. At
the election you became the architect of the
undemocratic arithmetic where 16 became
more than 19 to the embarrassment of all
Nigerians. And the die was cast for the
dismantling of PDP.
This was how your aggrandizement initiated
the problems of PDP. Your actions gave rise
to the “New PDP”. You called the dissenting
PDP governors “JUDAS” and tried to ridicule
them. As election approached you misled the
President to think that his success depended
solely on PDP governors. So strong PDP
leaders were isolated and made
inconsequential. You destroyed PDP just like
you already did back home.
The result is the humiliation of the 22 PDP
governorship aspirants in Akwa Ibom State
who scored no votes in your orchestrated
primaries.
Think about this: did the PDP win any State in
the North where the “New PDP” governors
preside? No! Not even Niger and Jigawa
States, where the governors later stayed back!
Today all the swag of Abuja power you
deluded in, is gone! Change has come! Do you
think change will not also come to Akwa Ibom
State? You will soon find out that God has
anointed the All Progressives Congress to
sanitize the confusion you created in Akwa
Ibom State. Surely, Umanah Okon Umanah will
take over the leadership of our State, and
restore morality, stop the unresolved murders,
kidnappings and looting.
May I ask, please, Gov. Godswill Akpabio what
are you really looking for? At a time of sober
reflection, which the elections should present,
you still continue with your rampage. The
same way you divided Nigerians and saw the
result in the defeat of PDP at the national
level, you started with Akwa Ibom State. Never
at a time are Akwa Ibom people have been so
divided along ethnic and sectional lines as
under you. You have even asked Akwa Ibom
youths to rise against their parents. You had
boasted that whoever wanted to contest
election without your blessing will die! What a
demi-god! Please what moral legacy are you
leaving for your children and our people?
During the 28th March, 2015 elections you
paid some Abak and Ikot-Obioko youths to
waylay me in my constituency. This was in
line with your boasts that we the elders of the
State in the APC would not secure any vote for
General Muhammadu Buhari and for our
National Assembly candidates. Paid youths
led by your commissioner for information,
Aniekan Umanah moved in with hordes of
policemen and military men and laid siege on
my village. And you think you will not regret
these? Has your swag not come to an end
with your dismantling and unraveling of the
PDP? So what does it profit you to corrupt our
youths to act like hooligans just because of
power, which is so transient!
You have amassed wealth, used our
commonwealth to ‘uncommonly transform’
PDP at the national level. The
‘uncommonness’ of your transformation of
PDP led to disgrace of founding fathers,
isolation and loss of power for the party. In
Akwa Ibom State you ‘uncommonly
transformed’ the God-given wealth of the
people to per capita poverty for the people.
While you lush and grandiose in so-called
“world-class” stadium and water-fountains,
the people (some of whom you have used
propaganda to brainwash into thinking all is
well) descend into deeper poverty in the midst
of plenty.
The State earned over N3 Trillion in the last
eight years. Please where is the evidence of
this fortune on the lives of Akwa Ibom people?
Yet you are leaving a ‘generational’ debt of
N500 Billion behind! Yet, you still seek to
borrow more from Zenith Bank, to have extra
to loot! Meanwhile, Julius Berger has not been
fully paid for the stadium and unpaid
contractors are leaving the State. The matter
got to an embarrassing stage when the first
lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, was prevented
from using the stadium during her last visit by
the unpaid developer. This points to the
massive scale of corruption under your watch.
All the properties you acquire around the
world are they not vanities? Do you really
believe in God and heaven as you love to
pretend?
No one destroys his own house. But you have
destroyed not only Akwa Ibom State but also
polarized our ancestral Annang land. You
have been commissioner for six years,
governor for 8 years. Yet you insisted on
taking the senatorial seat for Ikot-Ekpene
Senatorial Zone for yourself, from Abak
Federal Constituency. Are you that greedy and
insatiable? You soon realized that our people
rejected you. So to achieve the inordinate
ambition, you used everything, the good, the
bad and the ugly. You worked with a
discredited Resident Electoral Commissioner,
one Austin Okojie, who is infamous for his
magical conduct of elections, like the
abracadabra he did in Imo State in 2007. You
used thugs in uniform and youths you have
impoverished in the midst of plenty. There
were no result sheets! You used intimidation;
and you used a controversial returning officer
(who did not even have INEC jacket and tag,
and who did not even know the name of the
senatorial zone). And then you thought you
robbed APC and Chief Inibehe Okori, who won
the senatorial election. Time shall tell.
Governor, I still believe you are not totally
irredeemable. But you must act before it is too
late. The APC published a detailed inventory
of your reign of terror, murders and
kidnappings at pages 55, 56 and 57 of The
Nation of Thursday, March 26, 2015. Most
disturbing is the list of 105 Akwa Ibomites
kidnapped or assassinated under your watch. I
still find it difficult to believe that as detailed
and verifiable as this list is, your government
has not deemed it fit to make a formal
statement on this atrocity. Please, have you
heard about the International Criminal Court
at the Hague? Have you heard about God’s
Court of Justice in Heaven? The blood of Akwa
Ibom people will speak like the blood of Abel
at the appointed time! Like I said, you are not
irredeemable. If you want, you can seek to do
justice, you can undo your past injustices, you
can make amends, before it is too late.
As we prepare for our governorship election,
you are once again alone. Leave your
professional advisers and hangers-on for a
moment and guage the momentum outside
your cocoon. Akwa Ibom people are
unanimously yearning for change. Everywhere
you go people are calling for Umanah Okon
Umanah to liberate the State. You might not
have observed that people are now removing
your candidate’s stickers from their cars! Who
wants to be left behind in the peaceful
revolution going on in the State? Yet you want
to play god.
At the inauguration of PDP’s campaign
committee, you announced that your
candidate Udom Emmanuel was discovered
and hand-picked by your wife, Unoma. This is
ridiculous as usual. Have you turned PDP into
Unoma Akpabio party for her to nominate the
party’s candidate for them? Or can one
individual pick a governor for five million Akwa
Ibom people? Yet, you have committed all
sorts of atrocities and breaches of faith to
ensure your wife’s wishes prevail. So that is
how a governor should be made? While there
is nothing wrong with you working to enthrone
your wife’s picks, but this liberty should be
limited to picking her maids and personal staff
and not the governor of Akwa Ibom State.
Your legendary boasts are not limited to the
one where you said your wife’s wish must
prevail. You have been seen boasting that
Austin Okojie, the infamous REC from Uromi,
Edo State was sent by his kinsman Chief Tony
Anenih to deliver Akwa Ibom State to PDP.
You have also boasted that the present
Commissioner of Police who has served in
Akwa Ibom State for more than 15 years was
sent by Chief Mike Okiro, Chairman of Police
Service Commission, to help deliver your wife’s
governorship candidate and other PDP
candidates. Now, are you not playing god
again? Austin Okojie has not thought of
taking a cue from his boss, Prof. Attahiru
Jega, who acted creditably and honestly.
You have now concluded plans with your REC,
the infamous election rigger, Austin Okojie, to
thwart the will of Akwa Ibom people. Upon his
arrival at Uyo, Okojie was lodged in your
wife’s hotel, Davok Hotel at Ewet Housing
Estate until it became public knowledge with
the media feasting on it. He relocated to the
Le Meridien where your brother, Emem
Akpabio, who you assigned to take keep a
close tab on him, frequently visits his Room
268/269. Okojie has failed to use the REC’s
official quarters. You have also concluded
plans to again misuse the Army, Police and
the DSS during the governorship election. Stop
and think before it is too late.
Now that change has come to Nigeria, I join
world leaders and other eminent Nigerians to
commend President Jonathan for the manner
he reacted to the defeat of the PDP like a
democrat and statesman. It is gratifying that
he did not listen to the ill-advice of people
like you to embark on the misadventure of
resisting change. President Jonathan has
written his name in letters of gold and
posterity will remember him on a positive
note. Take a cue from the president before it
is too late. Allow the will of Akwa Ibom people
to prevail. Neither you nor your wife is running
for the office of the governor of Akwa Ibom
State in 2015.
Akwa Ibom State is greater than you and your
wife.
God Bless Akwa Ibom State.
God Bless The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
Dr. Ime Umanah,
( Ufan Ndito Ubuene )

This megalomaniac will certainly pay for his crimes against Akwa Ibom people.
Time never reach yet

hmmm, iko asuk abi bahbah!











udom is rright!