IDANG, Hon. Dr. Gordon Johnson

was born on the 8th of August, 1939 at Efa, Etinan Local Government Area in Cross River State. He was greatly influenced in his early life by his father, Rev. Johnson Idang, a disciplinarian born on 20th December, 1910 in Efa, Etinan, L.G.A., and Madam Cecilia Idang born on 15th June, 1921 at Ikot, Iboh, Dr. Gordon Johnson Idang is one of twelve children of his father. His mother had four children. He attended the University of Ibadan from October 1962 and passed his B.Sc (Honours) degree in Political Science in June, 1965. He went to New Government State Univer sity, U.S.A. for his M.A. and Ph.D., in Political Science from June 1967 to January, 1970, and later to the Princeton University, Princeton in New Jersey from September 1972 to January, 1978. He was a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Ibadan from September 1968 to June 1974. He was made a Senior Lecturer and act-' g Head…