How Udom Emmanuel Bagged Vanguard’s Governor of the Year 2022
Top newspaper in Nigeria, Vanguard, has conferred the Governor of the Year 2022 award on the Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, who has in more than seven years, kept Akwa Ibom afloat through massive investment in Agriculture, healthcare, Education, industrialization, and infrastructure.
Udom broke the jinx through his investment in Aviation industry, which has turned out to be a commercial success, and renewed hope in ability of states to generate wealth.
Established in 2019, Ibom Air has grown in size and operation to dominate the Nation’s airspace, with 99.8 percent schedule reliability and 96 percent on – time performance in the sector.
Udom Emmanuel has created a new model in Leadership with the establishment of several industries, such as a syringe factory, metering company, flour mills company, coconut virgin oil refinary, plywood manufacturing company, power substation, rice mills, and cassava processing mills.
Udom’s desire to reinvent Akwa Ibom and make it attractive not only to the investment community but also to the common man has led to the construction of several roads and bridges.
Under his watch, Akwa Ibom has consistently raised the performance bar in key areas, which attested to his ability to think outside the box — a rare quality in the Leadership of most state governments in Nigeria.
These and many more earned Governor Udom Emmanuel the prestigious award of Vanguard’s Governor of the year 2022 for visionary Leadership.
When his citation was read by the organizers and his achievements were displayed on the screen, the Akwa Ibom state community in Lagos team led by their president, Prince Felix Udo and Cornell Udofia, Lagos Liason Officer, Akparawa Michael Ekpeyong were all very happy and in jubilant mood all through the ceremony because of Governor Udom Emmanuel’s giant strides, including keeping the state safe and peaceful.
The Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, who represented the Governor at the award ceremony thanked Vanguard Newspaper for honoring Governor Udom and pledged his continuous support to the Governor in keeping the state peaceful with more dividend of democracy to come.
