POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN IKONO: AN UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENT
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN IKONO: AN UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENT Ikono, a Local Government Area in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District and one of the two LGAs that make up Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency is blessed with a population of about 185,000 people (2016 projection) divided into eleven wards for equal representation politically and for administrative convenience. The LGA is blessed with elected political office holders at various levels of governance representing the entire people of Ikono. These elected office holders ranges from the Ward Councillors, the LGA Chairman, the State House of Assembly member representing the good people of Ikono State Constituency, the Federal House Member representing Ikono/Ini, and the Senator representing the senatorial district in the National Assembly amongst other appointed representatives. For avoidance of doubt and for the purpose of this write up, political representation is the activity of making citizens' voices, opinions, and p...