Ekong Eyo Eyo
Date of Birth: 1 January 1963
State of Origin: AkwaIbom
Gender: Male
Qualifications: FSLC WASCE BSC, MSC
Elections Contested: 1
Bio
Ekong Eyo Eyo is presented in the profile as a Nigerian politician born on 1963-01-01, with FSLC, WASCE, BSC, and MSC qualifications, and Umoette Raphael Edwin listed as his running mate.
The same profile also includes an extended historical narrative about Eyo Okon Eyo (1918-1983), described as a former Deputy Speaker of the Eastern Region House of Assembly. That account says Eyo Okon Eyo was born in the Ibesikpo area of Uyo, attended Government College Umuahia, worked as a teacher, trader, and clerk, and was linked to a 1949 scholarship initiative in Ibesikpo funded through palm produce to support secondary and tertiary students. It further states he won election in 1951 to represent Uyo in the Eastern regional House of Assembly, served in the House of Representatives from 1953 to 1954 through an electoral college process, later became Chief Whip and chairman of the Eastern Region Development Company, and eventually fell out with Nnamdi Azikiwe in 1956 over a petition seeking a probe into a private bank.