Effiong Okon Eyo

Nnamdi Azikiwe, the leader of opposition in the Western region, moved to the east where he contested and won election in Onitsha, his hometown.

Azikiwe became the new premier with support of legislators including Eyo who was appointed Chief Whip and chairman of the Eastern Region Development Company.

When Effion Okon Eyo was accused of masterminding the killing of his political opponents during the Nigerian civil war, He was summoned by the chiefs in 1982 to the Lutheran High School Hall, Obot Idim, Uyo.

E.O.Eyo then compiled and presented a pamphlet titled 'WHO KILLED WHO' which he chronicled letters of complaints from traditional chiefs from various divisions against various players in the war in their localities to Col. Adekunle who led the Nigerian army to liberate the mainland south eastern state which is the current Akwa Ibom State and copies of those complaints were forwarded to Eyo as a first class chief.

Lack of this vital information has led to age long misinformation and claims that he single handedly killed all his political opponents in Ibibio and Anang before 1975.