Background
Eyo was born on 10 June 1914 to Chief Edet Okon Itam and Madam Aya Uda Okon Itam in Creek Town, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State. He was the fifth male and ninth child of his father’s fourteen children.
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Career
He began training for the teaching profession and in 1930 he obtained the basic qualification for enrolment in the teaching profession. Eyo was reported to have told his immediate family members that there were five significant meetings he would conduct, insisting that he should be prepared for those meetings, this was followed by him refusing to attend to visitors so that nothing would distract him from the meetings On 24 September 2010, he showed signs of weakness and died on 28 September 2010 in his residence in Calabar.
The government of Cross River State described him as “a pastoral icon who gave his all in the propagation and evangelization of the gospel of Christ”.
Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State Godswill Akpabio pointed out that “his deep spiritual insight and dedication to what God says, marked him out as one of the pillars of Christian faith.”.
