Iquo Inyang Minimah

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Iquo Inyang Minimah is a Nigerian lawyer and politician from Akwa Ibom State.

Career

She represented the people of Ikono/Ini in Akwa Ibom State at the National Assembly under the People's Democratic Party platform from 1999 to 2003. [1] Minimah was reelected for a second term that lasted until 2007.

In 2011, she contested for the Senate under the All Progressive Congress but lost the primaries. [2]

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