By: Akparawa Effiong I. Inwek
A credible insider confided to us that Mr Udom Emmanuel, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State who was sponsored by Godswill Akpabio and brought into office through the barrels of gun, in a well-coordinated task team involving the Independent National Electoral Commissioner(INEC) in Akwa Ibom State, the Nigeria Police Headed by the now Retired Police CP, Gabriel Achong in concert with armed thugs, has already conceded defeat at the on-going Tribunal case brought against him by Mr Umana Okon Umana of the All Progressives Congress.
Udom, worried at the quantum of evidence Mr Umana tendered at the Tribunal and with the various witnesses so far paraded by the APC, the PDP has reached a conclusion that they will be brutally defeated in the case and have taken a pre-emptive action.
Udom Emmanuel has consequently set up a committee with the task to start preparation for an election rerun since it has become clear that the tribunal will cancel the purported FRAUD engineered by Godswill Akpabio against the people of Akwa Ibom State. The Committee is headed by Mr Uwem Ita Etuk.
Mr Uwem Ita Etuk, a onetime State PDP Chairman and now a Commissioner in Udom’s Cabinet was overheard saying, “Except I die, Umana Umana will never be A’Ibom Governor. Mr Uwem comes from Ibesikpo Asutan, the same Local Government Area with the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah. Obong Attah is his testimony at the tribunal last week told the court how electoral materials for the entire Local Government was hijacked at gun point from distribution centre and thumb-printing was purportedly done in Uwem Ita Etuk’s compound with full Police protection. Please note that , Uwem Ita Etuk personally shut an APC agent to death on that day.
Uwem Ita Etuk and his co-travelers should be reminded that all those nonsense happened because Akpabio secured Jonathan’s full protection while he deployed the Nigerian security institutions and armed thugs against Akwa Ibom people. The system has changed and President Buhari has vowed to bring all those responsible for electoral violence to book. Mr Uwem Ita Etuk is in the list of those to be prosecuted when the time comes to serve as a deterrent to others.
