[6] Latham attests that Lieutenant Commander Selwyn was advised against the selection of King Eyo Honesty II as Obong of Calabar as wealth was his sole advantage.

[1] The desire to maintain status-quo may have been the preference of the British who were heavily involved in the Politics of Old Calabar at this time.

The meeting was held in our school room; and Lieutenant Selwyn having got all the information he wanted, at his request I sent for Archibong and Mr Young.

None were allowed to enter the schoolroom but the two chiefs[...] After a little talk, Mr Young gave up all claims to the Kingship and accepted the premiership[...][2]While Efio-Okoho held the office of Obong of Calabar, Ntiero Ekpenyong succeeded Eyamba V as the sixth Iyamba in the Ekpe Efik Iboku.

[14] Furthermore, Ntiero held an office similar to Prime Minister of state during King Archibong's reign.

Hope Waddell documents a scenario describing Archibong's style of settling disputes, Mr Anderson found two men fighting with big sticks in the mission ground and brought them to him.

[16] Consul Hutchinson describes Archibong I stating,[...]the king was one of the most extraordinary specimens of sable humanity I ever met.

He could neither read nor write the English language, but spoke it in a very imperfect gabble; and, go to his house whenever you would, he was nearly always in that condition in which he might be expected to agree with the sentiment of Sancho Panza, "Blessings on the man who first invented sleep.

King Archibong's mother known as Obuma accused several persons of having a hand in her son's death and forced them to take the dreaded Esere bean nut.