Akpabio makes first appointments as Senate President

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has approved the appointment of Chief Barrister Sylvester Okonkwo as his Chief of Staff.

The former Akwa Ibom State Governor also named Saviour Enyiekere as the Deputy Chief of Staff.

Chief Okonkwo attended Dennìs Memorial Grammar School in Onitsha. He is also an alumni of the University of Nigeria, Enugu campus, where he bagged a Bachelor’s Degree in Law.

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He hails from Ojoto in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.

He is a corporate lawyer and an astute politician with a career spanning more than two decades. He was a senatorial aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2019.

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Until his appointment, Okonkwo was the CEO of Chinto Technologies Limited, an ICT and telecommunications outfit.

He is married to Chief (Barr) Mrs. Chidiebele Okonkwo, LL.B, (Hons.) B.L., with kids.

The Deputy Chief of Staff, Enyiekere, hails from the Ika Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

He is an alumnus of the University of Calabar and the Deputy Director General of the Godswill Akpabio Senatorial Campaign Organisation.

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He is a former two-term Executive Chairman of Ika LGA, a former Senior Special Assistant to the Akwa Ibom State Government on Boundaries and Conflict Resolutions, a former Board Member of the Akwa Ibom State Road Maintenance Agency, a former student leader, and a former Senatorial Aspirant, Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District.

He is a member, the Nigerian Environmental Society, the Fellow Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria and the Professional Fellow of the Emergency Crisis, Risk and Safety Management Institute of Nigeria. He is happily married with kids.

Akpabio polled 63 votes to emerge thee president of the 10th Senate, defeating his lone challenger, Abdulaziz Yari, a former governor of Zamfara State, who secured 46 votes