In keeping with its avowed commitment to promoting the common good and rewarding excellence in the society, the Independent Newspapers Limited, publishers of the Daily Independent, Saturday Independent and Sunday Independent titles, has nominated Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as the Independent 2017 Man of the Year.
The governor will receive the award at an event on Saturday at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos.
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is Governor of the Year and Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike Political Icon of the year.
For his sterling role in weathering the storm of the killer-herdsmen in his state Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom will be decorated as Governor of the Year on Security, while Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi is Agriculture Governor of the Year.
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