For the second time in five years, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has been selected as Leadership Governor of the Year 2022 by the Nomination and Selection Committee of Leadership Group Limited, publishers of Leadership Newspapers, National Economy and Leadership Hausa.
Besides, the Management of The Sun Publishing Limited, publishers of Daily Sun, Saturday Sun, Sunday Sun and Sporting Sun also selected Governor Ugwuanyi as The Sun Governor of the Year Award for 2022 “after a rigorous selection process by the Board of Editors.”
Presenting the letter of award to Governor Ugwuanyi at the Government House, Enugu, on Friday, the Group Managing Director of Leadership Group Limited, Muazu Elazeh, disclosed that the Board of Editors chose the governor in recognition of his administration’s rural development policy which he said has deliberately developed parts of the neglected rural areas in the state and brought democracy dividends to the rural dwellers.
Elazeh added that Governor Ugwuanyi’s unprecedented bridge-building initiative across all ethnic groups in Nigeria, his peaceful disposition and remarkable efforts in security which have earned Enugu the enviable status of one of the most safest and peaceful states in the country, his economic empowerment programmes and remarkable interventions in the health and education sectors such as the establishment of the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS), Igbo-Eno, are among the reasons for his selection as Leadership Governor of the Year 2022.
The Group Managing Director who was accompanied by the Head of Leadership Media Group and Conferences, Abraham Nda-Isaiah and the Chairman of the Editorial Board, Christian Ochiama, pointed out that this is the second time Governor Ugwuanyi will be receiving the Leadership Governor of the Year award, stating that such honour is uncommon and worthy of commendation.
Responding, Governor Ugwuanyi dedicated the award to God who he entrusted Enugu State to His hands, stressing that his administration wouldn’t have recorded all the achievements, amid numerous challenges confronting the nation, if not for God.
The management of Sun Publishing Limited, led by the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief, had while presenting the nomination letter to Governor Ugwuanyi revealed why the media organisation chose Governor Ugwuanyi as The Sun Man of the Year 2022, saying that “All sectors bear the visible imprint of your turnaround.”