AKWA IBOM APC GUBER CANDIDATE UMANA UMANA LOST N50M OVER TRANSFER OF POLICE COMMISSIONER


Facts have emerged over the swindling of a gubernatorial candidate of Akwa Ibom State of a whopping N50 million over a plot to get the Police headquarters to redeploy the Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr Gabriel Achong.

It would be recalled that following a woeful outing at the last Presidential election in Akwa Ibom state, Umana Umana has waged a relentless war to have the Commissioner of Police, Mr Achong and the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Austin Okojie transferred from the state. He is said to have lobbied for a compliant Compol and REC to be posted to Akwa Ibom State to conduct the gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections.

The Akwa Ibom guber candidate according to a source at the Police headquarters was swindled of the sum at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja last week when some people who posed as close associates of the Inspector General of Police assured him that if he parted with N50 million the IG would accede to him to have the CP transferred. He is said to have given them the equivalent of N50 million in dollars.

The source said: “the man is very desperate to become the Governor and sees Mr Achong as standing between his ambition since the CP had not agreed to be induced by him. He believes if he succeeds in getting a compliant CP posted to Akwa Ibom State, he would assist him in rigging the elections in his favour,” he said.


We gathered that the UOU (as he is popularly called)was convinced to part with the princely sum with the hope that a signal would be sent from the Police headquarters immediately for the redeployment of Mr Achong. The jubilant guber candidate upon his return from Abuja last week is said to have informed close associates that the redeployment of Mr Achong was a “done deal” and that a new CP would be posted to Akwa Ibom State before the guber polls.

The associates of the guber candidate are said to have been overjoyed by the news of the impending transfer of the CP that they rushed out a news story that Mr Achong had been transferred without stating where he was transferred to nor who who was taking over from him. Trouble however started when the expected signal was not forthcoming and it dawned on the guber candidate that he may have been duped.

The furious candidate is said to have been livid with anger and called the Inspector General of Police to ask why Mr Achong had not been transferred. The IG is said to have informed him that the transfer of senior police officers is not done at the whims and caprices of individuals and threatened to arrest whoever had dragged his name into the bribery mess.

For now, Umana has decided to lick his wounds but is said to be making frantic efforts through some Northern members of his party to have the CP posted out before the guber polls. So far the efforts are said not to be yielding any result even as we gathered that he has vowed never to give up on the campaign to have Mr Achong transferred.

The source at the Police headquarters however confirmed that there was no plan to transfer Mr Achong, who we learnt may be bowing out of service by May 2015.

Source: Ibommobile.com

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