Navy Captain (retired) Joseph Adeduro Adeusi was governor of

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 ...

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from August 1996 to August 1998 during the military regime of General

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. As administrator, Adeusi founded the Akwa United Football Club, which played their inaugural match against the Rangers International F.C of Enugu in December 1996. He initiated a probe into the government of

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Local Government Area, which was headed by

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, who later became Senator. In January 1998 he had to deal with protests over an

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from a Mobil pipeline. He spent over nine hours negotiating with several thousand demonstrators, eventually agreeing to establish a claims office in Eket. Over 300 of the demonstrators were later detained. Navy Captain John Adeusi died on April 16, 2016, at the age of 76.

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