Ita David Ikpeme

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|name = Ita David Ikpeme

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|office1 = Military Governor of Ondo State

|term_start1 = 3 February 1976

|term_end1 = 24 July 1978

|predecessor1 = David Jemibewon
(Western State)

|successor1 = Sunday Tuoyo

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Ita David Ikpeme is a retired Nigerian airforce group captain who served as the first Governor of Ondo State (February 1976 – July 1978) after it was carved out of the old Western State during the military regime of General Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo.{{cite web

|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_federal_states.htm

|title=Nigeria States

|publisher=WorldStatesmen

|access-date=29 December 2009}}

Ita David Ikpeme obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of London.{{cite web

|url = http://www.ekondomfbank.com/board_management.html

|title = Board Of Directors

|publisher = Ekondo Microfinance Bank

|access-date = 29 December 2009

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110710174735/http://www.ekondomfbank.com/board_management.html#

|archive-date = 10 July 2011

|url-status = dead

}}

During his tenure as Governor of Ondo State, he initiated road construction in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

{{cite web

|url=http://www.compassnews.net/Ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30379:adesida-akures-busiest-road-&catid=72:property&Itemid=710

|title=Adesida, Akure's busiest road

|date=12 October 2009

|publisher=Nigerian Compass

|access-date=29 December 2009

}}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In December 1985 he was named as a suspect in a coup plot against the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.{{cite web

|url=http://www.ngex.com/news/public/print.php?section=article&ArticleID=1022

|title=The Babangida Years – Part 4

|author=Max Siollun | date= 4 August 2008

|publisher=Nigeria Exchange

|access-date=29 December 2009}}

After retiring from the air force, he was active in business.

In 1997, he was one of the owners of Bailey Bridges Nigeria, which was proposing to operate a pontoon ferry across the Kwale River.{{cite web

|url=http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/spiwebsite1.nsf/1ca07340e47a35cd85256efb00700cee/2A25E1AB0492429F85257635006F26EA

|title=AEF Bailey Bridges (Nigeria) Limited

|publisher=IFC (World Bank)

|date=23 May 1997

|access-date=29 December 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}

In 2009, he was on the board of directors of Ekondo Microfinance Bank.

He was chairman of Davandy Finance & Securities Ltd, a financial service company incorporated in 1997.{{cite web

|url = http://www.davandyfinance.com/content/board-and-management

|publisher = Davandy Finance & Securities

|title = Board and Management

|access-date = 29 December 2009

}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

He was also on the finance committee of the Efik National Association, which works to improve the health, social, and economic wellbeing of the people of Calabar.{{cite web

|url = http://efiknationalfundraising.org/about.html

|title = Committee Membership

|publisher = Efik National Fundraising Committee

|access-date = 29 December 2009

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091218081143/http://www.efiknationalfundraising.org/about.html#

|archive-date = 18 December 2009

|url-status = dead

}}

His wife, Benedicta Tinuade Ikpeme, died aged 73 in March 2009.{{cite web

|url = http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/8886/1/A-fulfilled--life/Page1.html

|title = A fulfilled life

|author = Dele Adeyanju