Sam Mbakwe

His contemporaries include The Reverend Canon Jeremiah Anyanwu, the first Anglican priest in the old Etiti Local Government Area of Imo State, who was born at about the same time with him in Avutu.

[2] Mbakwe served as an Administrator of Okigwe Province in the Republic of Biafra,[4] an Igbo secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria, during the 1967–70 Civil War.

[2] He was re-elected, but his second term was interrupted by General Muhammadu Buhari's military coup of 31 December 1983, which brought about the end of the Second Republic.

In 1981, the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, which is now named after him, was commissioned by his administration after having been built through citizens' donations.

In the context of poor governance and worsening insecurity and a plethora of other challenges they look back to a period in which their governor worked hard to attract development to the state.