APC DESPERADOS PANIC OVER AKWA IBOM JUDGMENT AT SUPREME COURT

APC IN DESPERATE TIMES, MOVE TO BRIBE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. While some people are already settled down with the perception that the judgment of the Supreme Court last week Friday upturning the Court of Appeal and declaring Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike dully elected Governor of Rivers State will ordinarily rub off on the Akwa Ibom state case before the same court it seems some erstwhile boys of Gov. Akpabio are all out to achieve the contrary at all cost. This is informed by the desperate move by these opposition newbies two of whom are immediate sacked executive chairmen of Uyo and Itu Local government areas who were hitherto "bedroom boys" of the immediate past governor of the state now senator and minority leader of the senate - Chief Dr. Godswil Obot Akpabio. It is reliably gathered that just last week, these former council bosses approached the APC gubernatorial candidate Chief Umana Okon Umana having raised the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N150, 000, 000. 00) with the support of other allegedly aggrieved elements one of whom is a very senior accountant with the Akwa Ibom state civil service - donating the sum of Ten Million Naira (10, 000, 000. 00) through her son in law. At the meeting, they charged their new principal to rise up and do everything possible to ensure that the April 11, 2015 gubernatorial elections is cancelled. According to them; it is their fear, and palpably so, that should Mr. Udom Emmanuel be declared Governor of Akwa Ibom state for the next four years; their political enterprise in the state would be totally terminated. They also intimated Obong Umana that even if he would not be troubled by th Udom administration that Sen. Akpabio will not sleep until they are utterly disgraced. As a result of these fears they pledged their willingness to do any and everything possible to make sure Mr. Udom is not governor of the state come judgment day at the Supreme Court. Incidentally, Umana, moved by their agitation, had no choice but to indulge them. It was therefore resolved at the meeting that the last and only option available to them is to approach the bench with grand generosity. So they moved from Uyo to Abuja where they met with a man at Gwagwalada through one Abuja based lawyer who vehemently opposed the previous government of Akwa Ibom state and petitioned the past governor to EFCC. According to him this Gwagwalada man is a negotiator for one of the Justices of the Supreme Court and has scheduled a meeting between them and the said Justice of the Supreme Court to hold at Nasarawa this week. However, at the time this report was filed no verifiable contact whatsoever has been established between them and any Justice of the Supreme Court, while all efforts to co-opt Sen. Ita Enang the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate) into this desperado scheme of them proved abortive as the presidential aide demurred on grounds that they abandoned him during the Budget Theft saga which he is yet to recover from even when some of them are in the know that he has always had intention to contest for the governorship of Akwa State come 2023 and therefore owes himself the duty to keep his records clean. Culled from today's edition of THE INK