WHAT ROLE DID UNOMA AKPABIO PLAYED IN UMANA’S FALL?

The claim from a section of the society that Unoma Akpabio, the governors’ wife and first lady of the state played a prominent role in the fall of Obong Umana is a clear cut indication that the state’s first family will not back the deposed SSG’s ambition. Whether the first lady personally supervised the sealing off of the office and the rationale behind her action remains a red pointer to another fall that awaits Obong Umana if he intends an attempt to join the 2015 guber race.

Was it an ethnic agenda?

Supporters of Obong Umana at it again. They will stop at nothing to blackmail the governor

Sincere commentaries have continuously held that the hitting out of Obong Umana from government is not an ethnic cleansing. Although Umana’s loyalists want us to believe otherwise.

Now, Governor Akpabio had dealt a hard blow on Obong Attah, Udoedehe was not spared, Amb. Sam Edem was humiliated, Nsima Ekere was earmarked for impeachment even when it was clear that there was no impeachment offences to be relied upon, Sam Enwang, Edet Akpan, Imoh Udonwa are all Ibibio sons with different tales to tell. This happened under the strict supervision and support of Obong Umana Umana yet supporters of these ones never cried ethnic. It is because Umana is embarrassed out that they have suddenly discovered the language of the Ibibios.

Let UOU and his remaining supporters retreat to the comfort of their shocks because the fate they suffered last Monday was nemesis and was not Akpabio’s ethnic agenda on display. At the appropriate time, the ethnic issue will be revisited but for Umana Umana’s fall, it has nothing to do with ethnicity. This is certainly because Umana’s interest to succeed Akpabio is not that of the Ibibios.