Chief Donald Dick Etiebet (1934 - 21 July 2015) was a Nigerian politician who was a senator during the

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(1979 - 1983). He was then elected governor of

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with the support of the then Senate president

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and senator

Joseph Oqua Ansa Joseph Oqua Ansa was a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was elected two terms in 1979 and 1983 to represent Cross River south senatorial district during the Nigerian second republic (1979-1983). He was a member of the National Party ...

who all went against seating governor

Clement Isong Clement Nyong Isong, CFR (20 April 1920 – 29 May 2000) was a Nigerian banker and politician who was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (1967–1975) during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon. He was later elected governor of Cros ...

, Fidelis Ikogo Nnang was his deputy, holding this office from October to December 1983, when the military coup brought General

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to power. Etiebet was born in

Ikot Ekpene Ikot Ekpene, also known as The Raffia City, is a historic town in south-southern state of Akwa Ibom. It is the political and cultural capital of the Annang ethnic group in Nigeria (Nair, 1972). The town is located on the A342 highway that par ...

Akwa Ibom State Akwa Ibom State is a state in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered on the east by Cross River State, on the west by Rivers State and Abia State, and on the south by the Atlantic Ocean. The state takes its name from the Qua Iboe ...

, of

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origins. He married Nike Maryam Agunbiade, from Oyo State in 1991, and they have three children. His younger brother Donatus ("Don") Obot Etiebet held office as Minister of Energy in the short-lived cabinet of

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, continuing in office after that government was removed by General

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, and later was a contender to be PDP nominee for governor of Akwa Ibom State in 2007. His son Aniekan Donald Etiebet was another contender for the same post. After the return to democracy in 1999, Etiebet was a leader of the

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(UNPP), which later merged with the All People's Party (APP) to form the

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. Etiebet was appointed deputy National chairman, South for the ANPP. Later, Etiebet became national chairman of the ANPP. Speaking for the ANPP in March 2003, Etiebet said election results should be released at the polling stations and signed by the political party agents as a means of curbing violence during elections. As President of the Supreme Council of Elders in Akwa Ibom State, in March 2004, Etiebet led a delegation of leaders from Akwa Ibom State to meet President

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and discuss the Onshore/offshore abrogation Act, which redistributed oil revenues.

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Living people 1934 births Members of the Senate (Nigeria) Governors of Cross River State United Nigeria People's Party politicians All Nigeria Peoples Party politicians {{Nigeria-politician-stub