Adesina to Receive Prestigious Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership March 6
Come March 6, 2024, the Lagos Continental Hotel will host an extraordinary event when the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, will be officially honoured and provided with the recognized Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership 2023.
The Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership was initially revealed in December 2012, with the main award event hung on March 6, 2013. Before Dr Adesina was revealed as its 4th recipient, 3 other prominent characters had actually been consulted the prominent award– Noble Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; previous South African President, Thabo Mbeki; and the creator of the Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola.
The occasion likewise accompanies the birth anniversary of the late stateman in whose memory the award was set up.
The award is an effort of the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation established in April 1992 to function as the custodian of Chief Awolowo’s intellectual and management tradition. The structure was developed as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organisation devoted to eternalizing the democratic and development-oriented suitables of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
According to its organisers, the award is a “distinguished, biennial, worldwide reward structured to follow an extensive procedure of election and subsequent screening by a Selection Committee including a few of the most exceptional Nigerians”. They even more stated that the reward works as a strong reward for individuals to pursue quality in management and great governance and provides substantial honour and acknowledgment to the recipient.
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Speaking on the choice procedure which resulted in the option of Adesina as the 2023 recipient, the structure stated the call for election for the award was released for a number of months in 2023 which, at the close of it, lots of elections of noteworthy individuals were gotten.
Dr Adesina, afterwards, became a consentaneous prospect for the 2023 award “after a cautious, in-depth and extensive screening procedure, the Selection Committee … for having the characteristics for the award to the greatest degree”.
Revealing his pleasure about the award and remaining in the business of previous noteworthy receivers, Adesina stated, “I am pleased to have actually been picked as a recipient of the prominent Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership. Signing up with Nobel Prize laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and previous President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, prior winners of the reward, is such a terrific honour.”
Adesina, a previous Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development President Goodluck Jonathan, is the 8th chosen President of the AfDB and the very first Nigerian to hold the post. He was very first chosen to the position on May 28, 2015, by the Bank’s Board of Governors at its Annual Meetings kept in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He was re-elected for a 2nd term in 2020 following an outstanding efficiency acknowledged by advocates and critics alike.
The High Five-point program of Adesina’s presidency at the AfDB with the aspiration to Feed Africa, Light Up Africa, Industrialise Africa, Integrate Africa and Improve the Quality of Life in Africa, was especially admired by the organisers as efficient in putting the advancement of the continent straight in the hands of its individuals.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is anticipated to grace the celebration, along with President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania, who is anticipated to chair the occasion. Other excellent characters anticipated at the occasion consist of Gen. General Yakubu Gowon, GCFR (Chairman BOT of the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation), and Mr. John Momoh, Chairman/CEO of Channels Television, who will check out the citation of the recipient.