Mr. Umana Okon Umana |
By Nse Peter
Sponsored media attack isn’t hurting the political
rating of the Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State government, Mr. Umana OkonUmana, but rather it’s strengthening and preparing him for the job ahead, says
Akparawa Michael Bush, a media guru from Akwa Ibom State.“When you go into an orchard, it is not all the trees that people love to throw sticks at,” Akparawa Michael Bush, the CEO of BUSH HOUSE NIGERIA, says in an interview published in Uyo-based newspaper, Community Pulse. “In fact, in most cases, it is always one out of many trees that people love to aim at, and what is the quality of that one? It has the ripest fruits. It just shows that the 2015 election in Akwa Ibom State is about him because everyone is talking about him.”
Umana Okon Umana is one of the early fovourites
within PDP for the 2015 governorship race in Akwa Ibom State, even though there
have been pockets of criticism against him, mostly from politicians in Eket
Senatorial District of the state who are clamouring that they should be given
the exclusive right to produce a governor in 2015. But the argument from the
SSG’s camp is that Eket Senatorial District has never in the past allowed other
zones to enjoy such exclusive right, therefore 2015 PDP governorship primaries
should be kept open for all.
Akparawa Michael Bush |
Michael Bush sees the attacks on Umana Okon Umana
has being normal.
“Have you noticed that no one is attacking me? It is
because I am not running for governor. We are not bothered about people
attacking him; they need to attack him so we can see what manner of man he is.
He is calm, very calm; he does not even argue or threaten sponsors of those
malicious propaganda. My thinking is: even these attacks are selling him.”Bush went sarcastic in his response to a question about the ongoing debate on zoning. He says in the Community Pulse interview, “I am still an apostle of zoning, but because of what I now know, I want it (Akwa Ibom governorship in 2015) to be zoned to excellence. I want it to be zoned to that best man. Let the best person take the job…. A man who will make all three senatorial districts proud.”
He commended the Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief
Godswill Akpabio for building massive infrastructure across the state and for
“the loud way he has put Akwa Ibom State out there in Nigeria”. “My prayer is
that Akwa Ibom should benefit from the huge national presence that the governor
has registered,” he added, while requesting Akwa Ibom people to remember Gov.
Akpabio and Umana Okon Umana in their prayers.
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