In
a sharp reaction to the news making the rounds in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State Capital
that the Secretary to the State Government(SSG) had doled out monies to Youth
Leaders of the 31 local government areas of Akwa Ibom State, Iboro Otongaran,
believed to be Mr Umana’s media Aide, in a statement passed to some media
houses online, stoutly condemned what he called “a sinister and very clumsy
attempt to defame the name of Mr Umana Okon Umana… in order to engineer
negative public perception and reactions against him”.
Otongaran
said it was mere rumour, stating that “there has never been such a time, not in
the past nor in the present, not by himself or by any representative, that the
SSG gave out N150 million to the youth. The story remains what it is: a lie, a
rumour,[and] a figment of some wild imaginations”.
On
that note the statement requested the public to please ignore the rumour said
to be peddled around that Mr. Umana Okon Umana doled out N150 million to some
youths and elders in Akwa Ibom State recently to buy their support for
political purposes.
The
Aide said it was a well-known fact that “Umana
Okon Umana is a friend of the youth, and he will be ever willing and proud, as
he has always been, to be part of responsible programmes and projects that will
help to improve the productive capacity and fortunes of the Akwa Ibom youth”.
According
to him, “it may be needless to do any finger-pointing for now. But it is
important to point out that the motive for this pointless and unfruitful
campaign against Umana Okon Umana is about who becomes the governor of Akwa
Ibom State in 2015 after the tenure of His Excellency, Chief Godswill Obot
Akpabio”.
He
said 2015 was still a far destination, adding that the task before the whole of
Akwa Ibom now was how to build more
support for His Excellency, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio in his ongoing drive
for the transformation of the state.
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