JUST IN: Peter Obi defeats BUA chairman, Abdulsamad Rabiu, Davido to emerge 2022 ‘Man of the Year’
In the 2022 Leadership Excellence Awards, Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, won “Man Of The Year.”
Obi received more votes than the other three nominees during a 14-day Leadership Excellence Awards voting period by Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora using internet platforms.
Igbere TV, a premier community TV in Nigeria, organised the online vote.
Obi won the online voting, which was place from August 1 to August 14, defeating the other three nominees.
He polled 2, 428, 403 votes to defeat the Chairman and Founder of BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu who polled 1, 124, 172 and popular Nigerian Singer, David Adeleke, a.k.a Davido who polled 881, 766.
The fourth nominee, Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere, the Founder and General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries, had earlier stepped down and publicly endorsed Peter Obi for the award.
The prestigious award, endorsed by the African Union, African Film Institute, will be presented in November 2022 in Abuja.
The prestigious award, which is the fourth in a row, is an annual event; it recognises and honours outstanding impacts of leaders across public and private sectors in Nigeria.
The event promotes outstanding leaders and personalities whose impacts have been felt in Nigeria’s political, social and economic spheres.
In May 2022, Obi became the presidential candidate of the LP in the upcoming 2023 general elections, after defecting from the People Democratic Party.
Obi is a Nigerian businessman and politician who served as governor of Anambra from March to November 2006 – February to May 2007, and from June 2007 to March 2014.
Born in Onitsha in 1961, Obi graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1984, he entered business and banking, eventually rising to hold several high-ranking executive positions at banks.
By the early 2000s, Obi was the Chairman of Fidelity Bank before leaving the position to enter politics.
