Aniekan Umanah Fires Back At Uwak ROBINSON UWAKS VAIN-GLORIOUS CONSPIRACY By Aniekan Umanah I have followed with deep sense of nostalgia, the rather unfortunate attempt by my brother, Hon. Robinson Uwak, in recent times, to disparage and malign his Governor and benefactor, His Excellency, Chief Dr. Godswill Obot Akpabio, CON. Lucky Dube, peace on his ashes, once sang the lines, leaders start a war anytime they want. Some for their rights, some for fun, some for their own glory. Those words reverberate in my mind when I consider the recent vainglorious war of calumny visited on our pragmatic leader and boss, Governor Akpabio, by Hon. Robinson Uwak. It so oft pricks me to recall the remarkable lines of William Shakespeare, laced with all the foreboding of classic irony, EVEN THOU BRUTUS, in the playscript, Julius Caesar. Now, Hon. Uwak is not just anybody. He is a leader in his own right. Uwak represents Oron, which is one out of the ten Federal Constituencies of Akwa Ibom State in the National Assembly. In what many pundits have described as a desperate attempt to secure a second term ticket, Uwak resorted to using his Facebook wall to rain invectives on Governor Akpabio. When my attention was initially drawn to his facile comments, I expressed doubts that a man of honourable esteem, like Robinson Uwak, will stoop so low. My doubt was dispelled when I actually confirmed the rants on his Facebook wall. In my rumination, I wondered what is honourable about a son who plays to strip his father before a partisan crowd. I pondered on how Uwak wants to earn political goodwill by insulting the office and person of his governor. That my brother Uwak threw caution to the wind to denigrate and make public ridicule of the respect accorded him by Governor Godswill Akpabio, shows the height of disregard and contempt he holds against the State Governor who had, through a telephone conversation, invited him to discuss his grievances. Like the proverbial man who tries to hide his face behind his thumb, Uwak believes, erroneously, that by casting slur on Governor Akpabios unrivalled performance, his below par performance in the National Assembly will be canceled out. Uwak, attempting to incite ethnic strife and exploit fault lines, alleged that Governor Akpabio hates Oro nation and has marginalized them in all ramifications with total neglect. He goes ahead to put down the pragmatic peoples Governor, calling him the Uncommon Transformer of Annang Land and parts of Uyo. I had a good laugh when his hirelings, in cue like a choreographed ensemble, went wild with media blitz to hail Uwak as an Oron patriot and defender. I laughed uncontrollably because most of them are not from Oro nation. The few who are, no doubt, are those who subscribe to Uwaks crumbling private interest cloaked as good for the Oro peoples and their politics. I will explain. Let me begin by stating that no leader in the world can ever complete or do everything in such a manner that there is nothing left to be done. That is why we all know that Government is a continuum. Chief Akpabio, by himself, does acknowledge this fact. Often times, he alludes to the truth that if Jesus Christ had finished everything there was to be done pertaining to the faith, pastors and other clergymen the world over would be useless in the present and future ages. Fact is that they are here with us because the harvest is plenty but the reapers are few. Uwak has taken his grandstanding to another conceited and deceptive level. In order to prove his allegation against H. E. Governor Godswill Akpabio, he purportedly commissioned a documentary written and produced to spotlight only the downsides of Oro geophysical realities. While nobody denies that there a few downsides, the problems and challenges that Governor Akpabio met on ground were enormous, are almost impossible to conceive because of sheer enormity. The incontrovertible fact remains that he has performed excellently for the entire state, and in particular moved the Oro nation forward. It is worrisome that Uwak conveni
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:36:02 +0000
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