Samuel Ikome Sako is the President of the government in exile, Southern Cameroons.  Dr. Sako arrived in the United States in 2010 on political asylum.  

Since 1992, Dr. Sako has been a political activist and human rights champion on behalf of the people of Southern Cameroons and their struggle for restoration and recognition.

In 2019, Dr. Sako was also elected president of Ambazonia’s Interim Government by an electoral college representing both the people of and major civil society organizations in all thirteen counties in Ambazonia.

Previously, Dr. Sako served as special assistant to Ambassador Henry Fossung, a pioneer leader of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), an organization established in the 1970s advocating for Ambazonia independence after a fraudulent referendum in 1972 dissolved Cameroon’s federal structure.  He served senior leaders of the SCNC whose motto was and remains:  “The force of argument and not the argument of force.” 

In the 1990s, as a young writer, Dr. Sako’s influential articles, published in newspapers and magazines in Ambazonia, contributed immensely to shape the debate during the birth of multiparty politics in Cameroon. He is a firm believer in the right to self-determination and good governance based on Judeo-Christian principles.   

Dr. Sako graduated from the University of Calabar in Nigeria and Therapon University in the US Virgin Islands. He did his post-graduate studies in Restoration Justice. Dr. Sako is married and a father of three.