Delta State's Ifeanyi Okowa wins Best Governor Grassroots and People Development award

DELTA State's Ifeanyi Okowa has been voted the Best Governor Grassroots and People Development in the 2018 Good Governance Poll organised by the African Leadership Magazine based in the UK.

According to Dr Ken Giami, the publisher of the magazine, Governor Okowa emerged winner from the collation of both offline and online votes across all the channels and platforms. Apparently, his strides in the development of entrepreneurial and technical skills and job creation for youths, women and the less-privileged, as well as infrastructural development in Delta State made Governor Okowa stand out.

Governor Okowa and other winners will be decorated and awarded on September 25, at a ceremony expected to be witnessed by 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. Winners in other categories include Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State and Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State.

In the poll, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) emerged as the Best Government Institution for the year. Now in its third year, the African Leadership Magazine poll has become a veritable tool for measuring performance among Nigeria’s state and regional leaders.