The former president and hero of African democracy effortlessly
jumped over APC National chairman, Bola Tinubu, founder of ECONET
wireless Strive Masiyiwa, former UBA Chairman Tony Elumulelu, President,
African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina and Koffi Anan, former UN
secretary general to win the award.
A letter sent to him to that effect reads: “There is no one best
suited at the moment than your excellency, to advise the continent’s
leaders on the merits of good governance and enduring democracy. Your
popular mantra of ‘one man one vote’ and ‘my ambition is not worth the
blood of any Nigerian,’ is a message that must be preached loud and
clear on the continent, hence our endorsement.
It is with great pleasure that I bring you the news of your selection
as the African Leadership Magazine Person of the Year, 2015. Chief
among the many factors we considered was your efforts towards promoting
good governance in Africa through the promotion of free and fair
elections across the continent. Your recent assignment to Tanzania
received accolades and international acclaim, because you discharged the
responsibility most creditably.
We resolved that there is no one best suited at the moment than Your
Excellency, to advise the continent’s leaders on the merits of good
governance and enduring democracy. The board is fully persuaded that you
have served your country, Nigeria, meritoriously, conducted a free and
fair election, in which you lost and yet conceded defeat, a development
seeing by many in the continent as historical.”
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