I’m driven by excellence –Gov.Obiano
Saturday February 20, 2016
GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State has said his driving force in his 18 months as the state’s chief executive is his passion for excellence.
Governor Obiano stated this in an exclusive chat with a team of The Sun’s editors. The governor told The Sun delegation that in his 20 months on the saddle as governor, he had received at the last six awards, but The Sun award was the best of all.
His words: “I feel delighted to welcome all of you this morning to this Lodge. I am very excited and delighted too to be found worthy by your Board of Editors as the Governor of the Year 2015. As you said, in your 13 years as an organisation, no governor has made this award, so I feel delighted to be the first to be so appointed, it is not easy to be the first.
“I can assure you that I will remain focused in those things that you found worthy that I deserved the first, my people deserve the best. Our mantra is to do more with less in these challenging times, but we must remain very focused.
“Clearly, some of the things that are assisting me are my background as a renowned accountant and banker. As we came in, we hit the ground running, we said that security is the first thing to be tackled, believing that other things will be added if we deal decisively with security and that was how we set up Operation Mkpochapu; so we dealt with criminals decisively and we have continued to do so; and Anambra remains the most secured state in Nigeria today and we are getting investors to come in here to do business with us.
“So, I am very delighted that some of these little things we are doing are noted by you; The Sun newspaper is a medium I have a lot of respect for, I appreciate this award, I have so many awards in my 18 months as governor; at the last count, I have six of them, five national and one international. But this The Sun award as far as I’m concerned, is the best of them all. I can promise Ndi Anambra that I will not let them down, that this award will motivate me to work harder and to continue to give them the best democracy dividends in Nigeria.”
GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State has said his driving force in his 18 months as the state’s chief executive is his passion for excellence.
Governor Obiano stated this in an exclusive chat with a team of The Sun’s editors. The governor told The Sun delegation that in his 20 months on the saddle as governor, he had received at the last six awards, but The Sun award was the best of all.
His words: “I feel delighted to welcome all of you this morning to this Lodge. I am very excited and delighted too to be found worthy by your Board of Editors as the Governor of the Year 2015. As you said, in your 13 years as an organisation, no governor has made this award, so I feel delighted to be the first to be so appointed, it is not easy to be the first.
“I can assure you that I will remain focused in those things that you found worthy that I deserved the first, my people deserve the best. Our mantra is to do more with less in these challenging times, but we must remain very focused.
“Clearly, some of the things that are assisting me are my background as a renowned accountant and banker. As we came in, we hit the ground running, we said that security is the first thing to be tackled, believing that other things will be added if we deal decisively with security and that was how we set up Operation Mkpochapu; so we dealt with criminals decisively and we have continued to do so; and Anambra remains the most secured state in Nigeria today and we are getting investors to come in here to do business with us.
“So, I am very delighted that some of these little things we are doing are noted by you; The Sun newspaper is a medium I have a lot of respect for, I appreciate this award, I have so many awards in my 18 months as governor; at the last count, I have six of them, five national and one international. But this The Sun award as far as I’m concerned, is the best of them all. I can promise Ndi Anambra that I will not let them down, that this award will motivate me to work harder and to continue to give them the best democracy dividends in Nigeria.”
PDP CHAIRMAN: Sheriff
cannot fly—bot members
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By Ben Agande
Members of the Board of Trustees of the People’s Democratic Party have
vowed that they would do everything possible to ensure that Senator Ali
Amodu Sheriff is not retained as the national Chairman of the party
because of what they say is the “huge luggage that he carries”.
Alimodu-Sheriff
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In an interview with Vanguard in Abuja Friday, a member of the board
said Senator Modu Sheriff was foisted on the party by state governors
who used their influence and resources to push him down the throat of
most members of the party.
The BOT member who did not want his name in print because he was
authorized to speak on the matter said at a time that the party was
struggling with crisis in multifarious fronts, the choice of Senator
Sheriff “can certainly not fly”.
According to the member, “it is the belief of most of us founding
members of the party that the choice of Senator Sheriff at this moment
is most inappropriate. Whether we like or not, there is this widely held
belief that the role he played in the death of the leader of the Boko
Haram sect, Yusuf exacerbated the crisis. We cannot claim to be
repositioning our party and at the same time be doing things that would
inflame the passion of Nigerians” he said.
It would be recalled that Senator Modu Sheriff was picked by National
Caucus of PDP which is made up of governors elected under the party’s
platform, members of the National Working committee, NWC and the party
leadership of the National Assembly.
His election has however sharply divided the party into two broad camps
with the state governors leading one camp while members of the party’s
board of trustees leading the other.
According to the member of the BOT who spoke with Saturday Vanguard, the
choice of Sheriff was a great mistake that the party would live to
regret if it is not reversed.
“How can somebody who is barely two years in the party and who has all
along been in opposition come and lead the party at this time that we
are trying to heal our wound? Our governors forced him on the party and
we have to ensure that good reason prevails at the end of the day” he
said.
Meanwhile Vanguard gathered that before his emergence as chairman of the
PDP, the governors were able to extract a promise from Senator Sherrif
that he would serve in the position for only two months and would not
recontest during the party’s forth coming convention.
In order to calm frayed nerves as a result of his emergence as chairman
of the PDP, it was gathered that Senator Sheriff has began reaching out
to members of the party’s BOT who are opposed to his emergence.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/pdp-chairman-sherrif-cannot-fly-bot-members/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/pdp-chairman-sherrif-cannot-fly-bot-members/
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