According to the saying of elders in lbibio "An over-paid chief priest will always dance naked before the gods" That is how best the Ieague of Akwa lbom Professionals can describe Akpabio's legal team coordinator Mr. Patrick Umoh who has a reputation for propanganda, lying and lacking in integrity. He is Godswill Akpabio's hireling used throughout the periods leading to the 2019 election and in particular during the period of the election petition tribunal sitting in Akwa lbom state.

Throughout that period, He issued reckless press statements in the social media and used some compromised mainstream print media to mislead the public that Akpabio's legal team was denied access to court ordered inspection of election materials, even when the facts available to the public were that they had held a meeting with INEC's Legal department and a schedule for inspection exercise had been agreed upon .

The latter information was made public by INEC officials in a statement in Uyo, as we could recall then in 2019, wherein they urged members of the public to ignore Akpabio's legal team's smear campaign against INEC and the person of the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Mike Igini, who God Almighty used to give the people of Akwa lbom state the opportunity to see ballot papers and thereby made it possible for the people to vote for the first time since 1999.

The league of Akwa lbom professionals and many people of our state are conversant with Goodswill Akpabio, his hypocrisy,manipulations and Electoral roguery all of which failed owing to the tenacity of INEC officials under the supervision of Mr Igini to conduct free and fair elections.

The league equally knows Dr Patrick Umoh as an unsuccessful practicing lawyer largely lacking in integrity who works for Akpabio and frequently used by him to misinform and confuse the public over matters bordering elections which in 2919 proved to be the liberation election for the people. Mr. Patrick Umoh was reported to have tried to bribe the INEC head of Operations to compromise election documents in the legal department office which led to the Commissioner directive that the staff of INEC in whose office the attempt was made to proceed on compulsory casual leave in order to safeguard the integrity of election documents during the tribunal sitting. Mr. Patrick Umoh has no integrity.

Firstly, Akpabio was denied his usual modus operandi of using polling units (25) located at homes and premises of his associates and himself because they were relocated by INEC to public accessible locations.

Secondly, He tried unsuccessfully to redeploy the Rec, Mike Igini from Akwa lbom in order to obtain illegally result sheets and other sensitive election documents from pliant INEC officials, in 2019.

Thirdly, on the eve of the election Akpabio led thugs and compromised security personnel to kidnap INEC poll officials and election materials, he was tracked down and the Rec was reported to have rebuked him and he begged that he will release them which he did and that was why election was allowed to go the next day in Essien Udim.

Fourthly, Akpabio did everything within his influence to control the entire security apparatus except DSS and the Army giving orders to high ranking police officials like AIG kimo as if he were the Commander in Chief and causing those who resisted to be redeployed. He instigated the redeployment of several security officials including seven police Commissioners. Still he failed only because INEC in Akwa Ibom refused to yield to Electoral corruption but insisted on allowing the people to vote and that their votes must be counted.

Having failed in his corrupt electoral endeavours at the polls, he embarked upon a voyage of mischievous Court processes and media misrepresentations, distortion and obfuscation of facts. Previously, these aspect of his fraudulent modus operandi were successful because he ruined the electoral ecosystem with compromised election INEC officials, and thereaffer feed the Court and the media with distorted facts and figures. Unfortunately he had no such figures and a corrupt Rec in 2019 unlike previous years to rely on this time, hence he desperately sought the few he could get like Prof Ogban and he was caught trying to steal the election for Akpabio and has now ended in prison.

Despite all these notorious facts in the public domain, a jesters like one Dr Patrick Umoh in a parody replete with lies, inconsistencies and libellous distortions of fact, wrote and circulated a publication titled "Inconsistencies of Electoral Umpire:A sad commentary on Nigeria's Democracy". The offensive and outright lies contained in the said publication is the reason why Akwa lbom league of professionals as stakeholders once again wish to debunk and to expose further Akpabio and his coordinator of misinformation and lies telling Mr. Patrick Umoh.

1) Mr. Patrick Umoh consistent with his reputation began by distorting the dates the Election he narrated was conducted as "February 23, 2021, for the Presidential/ National Assembly elections across Nigeria. Whereas it is on the public record that Sen. Godswill Akpabio contested the National Assembly elections for the North-West Senatorial District." on the 23th February 2019. This is the kind of misinformation Akpabio uses Dr. Patrick Umoh to unleash on the people of Akwa lbom since 2019.

2) Dr. Patrick Umoh in the said publication in respect of Akpabio claimed that "The indices were clear that he was to emerge the winner of the elections, having been the most popular candidate amongst those fielded by the different political parties for the elections" Which "indices" is Patrick Umoh reffering to ? The hired mouthpiece is entitled to his delusional opinion about his principal, but not entitled to his facts that are sacred because the facts on INEC and Court records show that his Principal, Akpabio lost in nine (9) LGAs out of the ten (10) that constitute the North-West Senatorial district and tried unsuccessfully to use unparalelled violence in his Essien Udim LGA to smuggle in 61,734 votes to up-turn the entire results in the nine LGAs, where he trailed behind his opponent, Sen. Christ Ekpeyoung by 30,000 votes. Now Nigerians will appreciate Commissioner Mike Igini's interview a week ago when he said that no politician can successfully steal electoral victory under his supervision. The "popular electoral indices" Dr Umoh referred to were Akpabio's corrupt efforts to buy or steal unsuccessfully a senatorial seat through failed accomplices like Prof. Ogban. The league of professionals urge members of the public to read the full text of that interview published in Vanguard Newspaper on Saturday 25th March 2021, as well as The Daily Sun Newspaper published also in March 2021 and several other national newspapers.

3) Dr. Patrick Umoh also shamelessly exposed himself further when he said "I was present at the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District Collation Centre, Ikot Ekpene where the collation of results was done. The facts were clear that Sen. Akpabio had emerged the winner of the elections. He had won overwhelmingly in Essien Udim Local Government Area where he comes from with about 61,329 votes to emerge the overall winner of the Senatorial elections." On the contrary, INEC and court records show that the total accredited voters from Card Reader report and on voters register was only 19,324. Dr Umoh and his principal Godswill Akpabio have no legal proof of how they came about the extra 40,676 unaccredited voters.Rather than allow the people to vote, Akpabio used thugs and compromised security personnel to cart away election result sheets of his Essien Udim LGA and allocated the bogus figures of votes to himself with no evidence of card reader accreditation and manual thicking on the Voters register (Watch attached video of press conference by Foreign Election Observers). On the claim of manufactured and allocated bogus 61,329 votes that Akpabio gave to himself, the following is the judgment and verdict of the Tribunal and Appeal Court on this shameless election rigger ; "To succeed on this allegation of malpractice , that the result or score which accrue to the appellant [Akpabio] were unjustifiably adjusted to his disadvantage, he must first prove that the votes (61,339) were valid votes. He needed to go back to the basis to lead evidence of witnesses, evidence of polling agents.No such evidence of accreditation of voters at polling units was led. This is the foundation of his case. Without the accreditation of voters, there cannot be any valid election let alone votes cast at that election. Therefore, in the absence of voters register, evidence of accreditation, collation, it cannot be said that the due process of election has been complete in Essien Udim hence the figures ascribed to the appellant[Akpabio] is questioned. The appellant did not lead evidence to the effect that the scores (61,330) relied upon as his score were valid votes or scores secured after the observance of due electoral process. Unless the appellant[Akpabio] succeeded in leading cogent evidence to his entittlement to the scores (61,330) ascribed to him, his assertion or claim that scored by him were manipulated, tampered with, altered or unlawfully adjusted by the 3rd respondent [INEC] in favour of the 1st respondent[Chris Ekpeyoung] were spurious claims" . The Appeal Court went further to vindicate the position of INEC that election in Akpabio's LGA was marred by violence and no legitimate votes could emanate from such constituency (see video) when the court said "Evidence of INEC official at the election indicate that there were unpredicted acts of violence, thuggery, intimidation, hijacking of election materials on the day of the election took.." Despite this damning verdict of the final Appeal court on this matter, having failed woefully to prove those criminal allegations, Akpabio and his propangandist, Patrick Umoh are still spreading lies on social media to Nigerians after the conviction of their compromised professor who is now serving three years jail terms.

4) Mr. Patrick Umoh further distorted the facts on record when he wrote that; "the electoral umpires, led by the Resident Electoral Commissioner –Mike Igini in conspiracy with others and in total disregard to the provisions of the Electoral Act, brazenly hijacked the entire process to the Headquarters of INEC in Uyo, another Senatorial District, kept it for three days, mutilated the result, and arbitrarily cancelled the outcomes in the various polling units across the Senatorial District with reckless abandon; without recourse to the provisions of the law and the tenets of democracy" Contrary to Umoh's misleading claim; The fact which all concerned stakeholders witnessed was that INEC had prepared all the legal requirements to announce the results at the Senatorial zone, but Akpabio and his thugs threatened violence and prevented INEC officials from going to announce the result. The heavily compromised commissioner of police according to report then said he could not guarantee security if the results were announced at the senatorial headquarter. Akpabio challenged the outcomes using all the available legal options open to him but failed, he lost both at the Tribunal and the Appeal court where he sought to use his Essien Udim alone to up-turn the election results of nine (9) LGAs where he was defeated. Further emerging facts revealed that INEC under Commissioner Mike Igini turned down all of Akpabio's offer of billions of naira to steal the election for him. Akpabio then went to the Tribunal with offer of billions but lost. He then went to the Appeal court with offers of billion, he was not only given a daming verdict by oughtright rejection of his bogus votes (61,339) the court cancelled the entire election conducted at Essien Udim LGA and ordered a re-run on the 25th of January, 2020, he lost the election in his polling unit, Wards and indeed the entire LGA (see video of corpers kidnapped at his residence during the re-run election). Despite Dr Umoh's delusional claim of Akpabio's popularity, today, in Akwa lbom state, Akpabio does not have electoral influence over any Councillors, LGA Chairman not even in his Essien Udim LGA nor does he control any state constituency legislators, House of Representative, Senate nor the state government. If a man claims that he is an influential leader and he looks back and find out that nobody is following, then of course he is taking a lone walk. Akpabio is currently taking a lone walk and nobody is following him.

Akpabio's ascendence to political power was rooted on election rigging using compromised INEC officials Security system, it was not based on genuine graasroot support of the people of Akwa lbom state derived from one person-one-vote. Akpabio's hitherto acclaimed political influence were like crops that were planted on a hill top, that will be harvested by the wind. That is what has happened when INEC in Akwa lbom before the 2019 election relocated all the polling units from private homes where Akpabio and his thugs hitherto used to rig elections.

5) Dr Umoh also distorted the issue of conviction of Prof. Peter Ogban in his contiunuing failed efforts to mislead the public when he wrote that "The recent happenings leading to the conviction of Prof. Ogban is another hard stroke on our democracy. The convicted Prof. Ogban was sued by Sen. Akpabio as the 4th Respondent at the Tribunal and at the Court of Appeal respectively." By this statement, Akpabio's propangandist tried to give the impression to the public that he was the first to sue convicted Prof. Peter Ogban over electoral fraud whereas Akpabio and his coordinator of lies merely played to the gallery by adding the name of Prof.Peter Ogban and the INEC Rec as Respondents when they knew that the electoral Act provided under section 137 that it will not be necessary to sue Presiding officers, Returning officers and Electoral officers but INEC as a Respondent.

Akpabio is only distancing himself from a failed accomplice, having compromised Professor Peter Ogban but failed to meet his election rigging goal. Nigerians are not surprised because there is saying by our Anang speaking people of Akpabio's tribe that "When the bush is on fire, grasshoppers do not have the luxury of time to bid each other goodbye". At the tribunal and Appeal court, Akpabio did not raise any issue against Prof. Peter Ogban as being claimed now after the man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment.

6) Another shameful and ridiculous statement made by Patrick Umoh was that "It is even shocking to note that INEC having held the position at the Tribunal that the election was free and fair, did a volte-face on such settled fact/ position which they held in justifying an election which was marred by irregularities and proceeded to prosecute their own Returning Officer as the culprit for electoral fraud." This statement reaffairms the lack of integrity of Patrick Umoh. The whole world knows that it was Akpabio that went to the tribunal to challenge INEC's rejection of the bogus allocation of 61,339 votes to himself from his own Essien Udim LGA, while claiming that the election was free and fair. INEC never at any time submitted that election in Essien Udim was free and fair. INEC maintained that consistency with the prosecution of Prof. Ogban who has been convicted and now in prison. Mr. Patrick Umoh and his principal in one breadth said they were the first to sue Prof Ogban for electoral fraud and in another breadth reffered to him as a "victim" after ruining his career on the quest of Senator Akpabio's failed ambition, while Akpabio sits in the comfort of his home enjoying federal patronage despite his failed crimes.

7) On the issue of beneficiary of this fraud by the University don, Mr. Patrick Umoh and his master Akpabio cannot fool Nigerians as to who was the intended beneficiary of Professor Peter Ogban fraudulent and criminal disingenius efforts to give eight thousand votes (8,000) deducted from Sen. Chris Ekpeyoung to Akpabio. Who in Akwa lbom or in the entire country does Patrick Umoh thinks he hopes to mislead by saying "The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was the beneficiary of the electoral fraud which took place across Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District. It was the Candidate of the PDP who was announced as the winner of the bizarre Senatorial election. It is commonsensical to note that the outcome of the electoral manipulation was in favour of the PDP" How can Akpabio who is clearly indicted by the conviction of a professor who tries to steal election for him claim shamelessly that he has been "vindicated" ? Clearly, Patrick Umoh and Akpabio are under the influence of high dosage of tramadol.

The concluding paragrapghs of Mr.Patrick Umoh's write up showed clearly that despite been a lawyer, he doesn't know the difference between libel and statement of facts that can be proven in court otherwise he would have refrained from publishing libelous statements against a man of proven integrity like Commissioner Mike lgini when he wrote thus "It is of grave concern to members of the public that the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Akwa Ibom State - Mike Igini who is deemed to have been an accessory after the fact has not been prosecuted. Here is a man who personally drove to the Senatorial District Collation Center in Ikot Ekpene to illegally cart away the result of a concluded election to his office in another senatorial District, superintended over the cancellation of the result and awarded the manipulated result to a preferred party in total disregard to the extant provisions of our Electoral Laws." Can this be proven in court of law that the REC personally drove himself to Essien Udim to commit these criminal acts ? When the police at the time stated that they could not guarantee the security of the REC and his staff owing to violence and threats of violence by Akpabio and his hired thugs? This outrageous and very libellous statement reminds the Akwa-Ibom League of Professionals, and indeed should remind all Nigerians of how Commissioner Mike Igini's own people of Edo state made similar outrageous defamatory statement against him in the build up to the Governorship election last year that they saw him "drive personally" to have a meeting with Gov. Obaseki at 3am on how to rig the Edo election whereas the man was in Lagos where he addressed the press. But shortly after a five billion (N5 billion) suit was instituted, these same accussers went to the social media to publish a written apology, begging Commissioner Mike Igini for forgiveness.

A paragraph of the long apology by one Mayaki is worth quoting here "As a christian, l strive daily to have a conscience and avoid offence towards God and towards men and l am willing to apologise to whosoever l may have offended during the period of my assignment as the Chairman, Media Campaign Council of All Progressive Congress (APC) in the september 19th 2020 Governorship election in Edo state. l released a statement without cross-checking and interrogating my source who thought he could advance my political interest with fake news and thinking propanganda could land us a win, this has proved wrong..l was misled and raised allegation against one of the highly respected and reputable resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission. l tender my profound apology to Mr. Mike Igini" lts hoped that should the nonsense Rec decides to go to court, Dr Umoh will not end up similarly eating humble pie if his libel is tested under Court scrutiny ?

The likes of Commissioner Mike Igini are not many at the moment, that is why the league of Akwa Ibom Professionals will defend this rare and exceptional electoral umpire that risked his life to ensure that our people voted in the 2019 election. By his unwavering committment to credible election, he gave meaning and purpose to our people that the ballot remains the best means of the expression of the will of the people in a democracy. The people of Akwa lbom and Nigerians would recall the leaked audio conversation (see attached audio and take a listen) of how a Governorship candidate and a serving senator planned to bomb the Commissioner's official vehicle to get rid of him as well as several LGAs that were marked for destruction during the election. Our people will forever remember REC Mike Igini and pray to God to give this country more of his type and pedigree for the service of our beleagard country.

Why is it that Mr Patrick Umoh and Akpabio both of whom are pathological liars blowing hot and cold over the conviction of professor Peter Ogban who they compromised to steal a whopping eight thousand (8,000) votes ? Even a Ph.D holder, as he claims, throughout the write up he circulated in the social media, he exhibited so much lexical lunacy, he doesn't even know the spelling of putrefing which he wrote as "petrifing"

Finally, we urge the Nigerian people to join the League of Akwa Ibom Professionals to call on Mr. President and those around him to ask Godswill Akpabio to resign or sack him from the government given the shame that a professor he contracted to steal a senatorial election for him has been convicted to three (3) years jail term has brought upon this administration.


Source: LEAGUE OF AKWA IBOM PROFESSIONALS

SS people no get any external enemy...

Na dem dey bring themselves down

Na the story long very well even longer than Maria Ma Ba's "So Long A Letter".

If not lies, how would a politician make it up. Mention one Nigerian politician that doesn't lie and you stand a chance to win a place in Guinness Book of Records.