Etim Jack Okpoyo

Etim Jack Okpoyo
1st Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State
In office 2 January 1992 – 18 November 1993
Personal details
Born	(1943-09-23) 23 September 1943 Urue-Offong/Oruko LGA, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Political party	National Republican Convention
Other political affiliations	All Nigeria People's Party (1999-2004) People's Democratic Party 2005 till date

Etim Jack Okpoyo listen^ⓘ (born 23 September 1943), was a Nigerian politician. From an Oron origin, he was the former and the first deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State from 1992–1993. He was a businessman, a one-time Ambassador of Nigeria to Italy and Albania, and a civil engineer. He was a Rotarian who believed in community service and served the Oro nation in various leadership capacities.

Early life

Born on September 23, 1943, Etim Jack Okpoyo, the seventh child of Chief Jack and Akon Okpoyo, he started Eyubia Central School.

In 1950 he was transferred to the District Council School Oruko, where he obtained his First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC). In 1959 he proceeded to Lutheran High School. Obot Idim, now in the Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, to obtain his West African School Certificate (WASC) in Division Two in 1963. This was all done in the Akwa Ibom state.

In 1964 he received a diploma in Civil Engineering from the Yaba College of Technology, and in 1973 he got his first degree in Civil Engineering from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. For two years, he also served as a president of the Oron Development Union Port Harcourt branch. For five consecutive years, he also served as the President General of the Oruko Development Association and as a board of trustees member of the Oron Local Government Industrial and Development Fund.

Before public services, Okpoyo worked as a survey party chief with the Louis Berger Engineering Company. Between 1974 and 1991 he also worked with the Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited, Port Harcourt, where he later resigned to go into the private business.

Politics and public service

He was elected as the first civilian deputy governor in 1992, alongside Obong Akpan Isemin, on the platform of the National Republican Convention, NRC. Okpoyo entered public service following a career in the oil and gas industry and business. From 1992 to 1993, he served as Deputy Governor. He was the Nigerian Ambassador to Italy and Albania from 2000 to 2003.

Okpoyo was honored by the church as a Knight of John Wesley (KJW) under the then Archdiocese of Calabar.