John Mahama and other winners of the Zik Leadership Award 2018

General News on Friday, April 26, 2019

Source: alabingo.com

2019-04-26

John Dramani Mahama, former president of Ghana and John Odigie Oyegun, past president of the All Progressive Congress, APC, won the Zik Award of the Year 2018 for political leadership, while Udom Emmanuel and Abubakar Sanni-Bello, governors of the State of Akwa Ibom and the State of Niger respectively won the prize for good governance.

Professor Pat Utomi, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Research and Analysis of Public Policy (CPRN), organizer of the awards, revealed this information at a press conference in Lagos on Wednesday, April 24.

According to Utomi, Femi Otedola, president of Forte Oil, and billionaire Arthur Eze, have won the leadership award as well as Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, state minister in charge of oil, and Shyngle Wigwe, former statesman and veteran of television,.

The other winners of the prestigious 2018 year award, according to Utomi, are Oye Ibidapo Obe, a prominent professor of systems engineering and Philips Oduoza, former executive director of United Bank for Africa Group, UBA, and president / founder of NOVA Merchant Bank. Limited who won the Professional Leadership Award, while Bisi Fayemi, wife of Kayode Fayemi, Governor of Ekiti State, won the Humanitarian Leadership Award.

Utomi recalled that the Zik Leadership Award was created 25 years ago in the honor of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria's first president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

According to Utomi, the award was created to embody the leadership values ​​represented by Africa's Big Zik.

"So, his calling has always been to encourage and strengthen leadership on the African continent," Utomi said.

He stated that the final list of winners had been established by the PPRAC Advisory Committee after "an exhaustive evaluation of the nominees in the different price categories".

The Zik Award was established 25 years ago in Nigeria in honor of the country's first president, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and is "an embodiment of the leadership values ​​of the Greater Zik of Africa".