UICollectionViewController seque to UIViewController - uinavigationcontroller

I have a UICollectionViewController and UIViewController, with the UINavigationController as root.
When I click on a UICollectionViewCell, it pushes the UIViewController
The snippet of code I have for that is:
-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
UICollectionViewCell *cell = (UICollectionViewCell *)sender;
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.collectionView indexPathForCell:cell];
MyViewController *myVC = (MyViewController *)segue.destinationViewController;
}
But it crashes when I click on the cell and says
"Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSGenericException', reason: 'Push segues can only be used when the source controller is managed by an instance of UINavigationController"
I thought by making the UINavigationController root solves this. What am i doing incorrectly?

Just figured it out actually
went into Editor at the top toolbar, then Embed In, then navigation controller
voila

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When I run the app and click the button, it adds the view controller and view from Another.storyboard, and when I click the button again they are removed and the instance of AnotherViewController is deallocated.
However, if I connect the label in Another.storyboard to the label outlet on the AnotherViewController, the deallocation never occurs. Why is this and what can I do to fix it?
Edit: I do have a few workarounds, but they aren't very desirable and I would prefer to understand why the recommended way (storyboards and outlets) isn't working properly.
Undesirable workaround 1: Do the same thing but load the view controller and view from a XIB file. This works as expected, but ideally I would be able to do the same thing using storyboards.
Undesirable workaround 2: Bind all my outlets manually in code in the view controller's viewDidLoad method. This is just tedious and ugly as it requires iterating through all the view's subviews and comparing identifiers.
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The nav bar with the name that appears on the selected cell as the navigation item title.
A collection view as the main interface
a tab bar with the collection view, and an imagePickerController
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[photoHub useLayoutToLayoutNavigationTransitions];
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[super viewDidLoad];
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Do you guys have any idea how I can restructure this to make everything flow correctly. I must be doing something wrong in the way I'm utilizing tab and nav controllers.I don't want there to be any tabs until this stage in the app, which is 3 or 4 VCs in already. Should I be using a tab bar controller from the App Delegate onward?
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I'm trying to get a reference to my detailViewController in application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method. But here I am faced with a problem.
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Screenshot: http://picturepush.com/public/13071076
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