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By AbuSatar Hamed
LAGOS – The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has bagged the prestigious honour of Vanguard’s Governor of the Year 2022 for his visionary Leadership.
According to a release e-signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l magazine and online – www.startrendinternational.com by Amb. Cornel Udofia, the renowned publicist, in more than seven years, Udom Emmanuel has kept Akwa Ibom afloat through massive investment in Agriculture, healthcare, Education, industrialization, and infrastructure.
When the governor’s citation was read by the organizers and his achievement displayed on the screen, the Akwa Ibom State community in Lagos, led by its President, Prince Felix Udo and Cornell Udofia, Lagos Liason Officer Akparawa Michael Ekpeyong were engrossed with happiness and jubilation, because of the giant strides of the governor in keeping the state safe and peaceful.
The Secretary to The State Government Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem who represented the governor at the award ceremony thanked the Vanguard Newspaper for honoring the governor and pledged the governor’s continuous support in keeping the state peaceful with more dividends of democracy.
Udom investment in Aviation industry, turned out to be a commercial success, and renewed hope in ability of the state 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.
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 attest to his ability to think outside the box – a rare quality in the Leadership of state government in Nigeria.
