Umana confirms Think Akwa Ibom! story: “Akpabio told me, let me see how God will make you governor”

Mr. Umana Okon Umana

By Nse Peter

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Umana Okon Umana has confirmed a Think Akwa Ibom! story which revealed how Governor Godswill Akpabio arrogantly told Umana “let’s see how God will make you governor of Akwa Ibom State.

Umana told Planet FM last week that while he was serving as the Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State Government he started soliciting for support from politicians after Governor Akpabio told him that he should prepare to take over from him as the next governor, and that Akpabio turned around and became “angry that the people of Akwa Ibom had seized the process, that they were now the ones who were driving the process.

“He (Akpabio) called me and said, “Look all these people supporting you—Abom Tony Esu, don’t you know he is my enemy? So so so is supporting you; when the people of Akwa Ibom have taken over the job of making you governor, what will I do?

 “And I said, “Your Excellency, but we will have to depend on the people to make me governor, and to depend on God.” He got angry. That was the point of departure. He got angry and said, “You talk about God making you governor, let me see how that God will make you Governor,” Umana told Planet FM.

Think Akwa Ibom! had exclusively reported about a stormy meeting Governor Akpabio had with Umana who was then serving as SSG.

About two weeks before Godswill Akpabio’s wife, Unoma, shocked the whole Akwa Ibom State when she went to the then SSG’s office, forced out the workers there and broke in into Umana’s office, Akpabio had visited Umana in his private residence at Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo, where both were said to have had a stormy meeting, sources close to the governor and the former SSG had told Think Akwa Ibom!

As reported by Think Akwa Ibom! Governor Akpabio went to the then SSG’s house to express his disapproval and anger on Umana’s effort to forge various political alliances in preparation for 2015 governorship election, when he (the governor) had expressly told him to allow him be in control of the entire process that would produce him (Umana) as the next governor. (Click here, to read the Think Akwa Ibom! story)