Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is to be formally presented as Vanguard’s Personality of the Year, 2012, tomorrow, in an event showcasing some of the country’s most successful personalities in the professions. Tomorrow’s event would also give recognition to Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, the Managing Director of Access Bank who was runner up in the selection of the Personality of the Year as determined by Vanguard.
The event holding in Lagos, is billed to be a recognition of Governor Amaechi’s achievements in the last one year.
His feat in RiversState has been lauded by eminent personalities, including the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The event will be laced with glitz and glamour in refreshing Vanguard style. The mix of political and business elite is expected to grace the occasion. The event is to be chaired by former Military President Ibrahim Babangida with former Federal Commissioner for Information, Senator Edwin Clark being father of the day. The event which is strictly by invitation opens by 6.00 p.m.
Amaechi is being honoured for his widely acknowledged developmental strides which have seen noteworthy improvements in infrastructure and the impartation of governance on all sectors of the society in RiversState.
Governor Amaechi’s development strides have been observed as going beyond infrastructure improvements in sectors such as roads, electricity, sports, new towns and such like, to life touching and human capacity development initiatives such as education, healthcare among other economic boosting endeavours.
Under four years as governor of Rivers State, Mr. Amaechi constructed more than 500 model primary schools of which 250 have been fully equipped and commissioned; established 24 state of the art model secondary schools, constructed and equipped 160 model primary healthcare centres among others.
Security which was a sore point before the advent of the Amaechi era in RiversState has been dramatically enhanced as evidenced by the improved confidence of the business community in the state.
Amaechi has also in the last year given a positive face to the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, which he chairs putting developmental issues at the centre of the forum beyond the politics of self preservation that the forum had been noted for.
Born on May 27, 1965, Amaechi was born in Ubima, in Ikwere local government area of RiversState, and is an alumnus of the law faculty of the University of Port Harcourt, Port-Harcourt. A winner of several awards including the Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON.
Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede, the runner up for the Vanguard Personality of the Year award, is a man who has advanced beyond his age and successfully navigated the several encumbrances in the risky banking sector.
Self-effacing, his name and reputation have continuously gone ahead of him. But beyond the quiet mien of a purposeful banker is a fighting spirit developed as a teenager when he was left behind on the tarmac of Kaduna airport at the age of 10 because he could not find his way into the plane.
As the pain of being stranded on the tarmac settled on him, the 10 year old Aig-Imoukhuede vowed never to be left behind again in anything he is involved in.
It was that spirit that drove him in his chosen career of banking. Through his stints at Prime Merchant Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank and then Access Bank, he survived all the storms that bestirred the country’s banking industry, and in 2011 led his colleagues in Access Bank in the successful takeover of one of the country’s major banks, Intercontinental Bank.
Besides his strides in the banking industry, Aig-Imoukhuede in the last year also showed strong moral fibre with his chairmanship of the Federal Government Presidential Task Force on the Verification of Fuel Subsidy Payments.
A holder of the national honour of the Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, an alumnus of the HarvardBusinessSchool, University of Benin and NigeriaLawSchool, Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede was the 2011 winner of the “Ernest & Young West Africa Entrepreneur of the Year”.
He is the runner up of Vanguard Personality of the Year, 2012.
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