Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, on Friday received the Governor Of The Year Award On Digital Economy and Skills Acquisition from Telegraph Newspapers, with a promise to continue his transformation of the state.
Among the dignitaries present to hand him the award was the publisher of the newspaper and Senator representing Abia North, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.
Receiving the award on behalf of Uzodimma, the State Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Hon. Declan Emelumba, described the award as an endorsement of the transparent, accountable, and transformative leadership of the governor.
He noted that the governor was barely two years in office when The Sun newspaper voted him Governor of the Year, followed closely by Vanguard Newspapers, which named him the Infrastructure Governor of the Year.
“This year alone, Telegraph Newspapers has honoured him with the Governor of The Year Award On Digital Economy And Skills Acquisition. Only yesterday, Leadership Newspapers also bestowed on him the Governor of the Year award,” he enthused.
He disclosed that an international magazine has also pencilled the Imo State Governor for another award later in the year, saying that the string of honours was well earned.
He said what made the awards most exciting was that they were not solicited but came about through the verified achievements of Uzodimma.
Emelumba said the evidence of the governor’s achievements was there in Imo State for people to see and authenticate.
New Telegraph had, in a letter to the governor, explained thus:
“We have carefully monitored your diligent implementation of your broad-based developmental projects since your assumption of office in 2020. We have followed your giant strides in infrastructure, aviation development, workers’ welfare, and numerous other fields of human endeavour. But we are mostly thrilled by your emphatic focus on youths and workers of the state in the areas of digital economy and skills acquisition.”
