Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has emerged Best Governor-Grassroots and People Development- in the 2018 Nigeria’s Good Governance Poll organized by the African Leadership Magazine Uk.
His emergence in this category is in recognition of his giant strides in the development of entrepreneurial and technical skills and job creation for youths, women and the needy in the state, as well as for the massive infrastructural development and creation of an enabling environment for investment in Delta State.
The organisers in a statement unveiled by the Publisher, Dr. Ken Giami, said that Governor Okowa emerged the winner at the end of the collation of both offline and online votes across all the channels and platforms.
It stated further that Okowa and other winners would be decorated and presented with the instruments of honour and award on September 25, 2018 in front of over 300 political, business and diplomatic leaders in New York, at the International Forum on African Leadership on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly Meeting in New York.
Other winners in other categories are Mr. Nyesome Wike, Rivers State; Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai, Kaduna State; Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, Gombe State, and Lagos State Governor Akinwumi Ambode, while Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, emerged as the Best Government Institution for the year.
The poll, which is in its third year, has become a veritable tool for measuring performance among Nigeria’s state and regional leaders.
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