Get out, you are irrelevant * Aniekan Umana tells ex SSG Umana Umana

 

The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Aniekan Umanah has been alleged to have lashed out at the former Secretary to State Government, Obong Umana Umana; describing him as politically irrelevant in Akwa Ibom State.

Aniekan Umanah is said to have remarked that way on Umana Umana while reacting to an alleged plot by the latter to pull down the Governor’s political structures. The Commissioner is said to have stated that it is laughable for the Ex-Secretary who is politically irrelevant in the State to think he can fight Akpabio from Abuja.

This is not the first time the information boss will be hitting his Ex-SSG. The first time was in his reaction to an editorial that was published in THE NATION newspaper, where the publication had described Akpabio as a tin god. Mr. Aniekan Umanah had stated that Umana Umana was booted out of office because of his declaration for the governorship position in 2015 and Umana Umana’s men had fought back; describing the State Information Commissioner as being inconsistent. This description alone was enough to heat up the polity but Aniekan Umanah laid low only to resurface and describe the Ex-SSG as irrelevant in the State politics.

Spokesman for Umana Umana, Iboro Otongaran in his reaction said, he wants to make it very clear that his boss Umana Umana has not in any way opened an office either in Abuja or anyway to use in fighting the Governor and pull down his political structures. He added that he does not want to believe that the commissioner for information made such statement about his boss. Otongaran said, “I do not want to believe that the Hon Commissioner for Information made such a statement about my boss, he didn’t make such statement. I am certain he didn’t make such statement, it must have been the creation of media people who were rushing to meet deadline’’. I want to state that as far as my boss and his political future is concern, he has no such office as alleged and I want to believe that the statement credited to my brother Aniekan Umanah, the commissioner for information did not come from him. I want to believe he was misquoted, Otongaran submitted in a telephone chat with our reporter over the weekend.