President Buhari,
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Professor
Attahiru Jega have all been picked as Vanguard personalities of the year for
2015. Vanguard says they are the men that stood out in 2015band described them
as heros of democracy. They are also giving Lifetime Achievements Awards and
also picked their best Governors of the year. Find out what they wrote about
Buhari, Jonathan and Tinubu after the cut and who made the other lists.
Muhammadu Buhari was focused in his persistent pursuit of the
presidency. Having attained the maximum political office as a military head of
state 32 years earlier at the age of 41, Buhari seemed determined to regain
political office as president.
He submitted himself to a
democratic process that in its course projected the re-engineering of the
political landscape. In the end and for the first time in the nation’s
political history, an incumbent president was defeated in an election.
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan –
Personality of the Year, 2015
Like the mortal he is, Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan’s fairy tale political expedition was bound to come to an
end. Following his advent, President Jonathan had promised to sanitise the
electoral process, just as nearly all of the nation’s previous leaders. Dr.
Jonathan, however, proved to be an exception allowing the incorporation of an
electoral system that eventually led to his defeat.
President Jonathan’s
decision not to seek judicial or other crude disruption of the outcome of the
2015 presidential election not only turned out to be his finest hour, but a
glittering anchor that has helped to stabilise the nation’s democracy.
For his brave smile in the
face of defeat, his efforts in refining the nation’s electoral system and his
continuing continental role in the promotion of democracy, Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan is the choice of Vanguard editors for Joint Personality of the Year,
2015.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu – Hero of Democracy
Unarguably one of the
country’s leading political engineers, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has now taken
his remarkable political wizardry to the national space. His dogged resistance
to the encroachments of the former ruling party in Lagos State, and to its
routing in most of the Southwest states, largely bore the footprints of the
former Lagos State governor.
Tinubu’s central role in
the enthronement of the new administration and the eclipse of the former
government has been generally acknowledged by friends and foes. Remarkably, he
has achieved his aim within the rules of democracy. For his political dexterity
and commitment to the rule of law in his political engagements, Vanguard
recognises Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Hero of Democracy, 2015.
Lifetime Achievements
Awards
*Otunba Michael Olasubomi
Balogun, Chairman, First City Group
*Lt. Gen. T.Y. Danjuma
(Rtd)
*Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu,
Chairman, BUA Group
*Dr. Alex Ekwueme, former
Vice-President
*Senator David Dafinone,
Eminent Accountant
*Chief (Mrs) Nike
Akande, President, LCCI
African Businessman
of The Year
*Dr Mike Adenuga, Jnr,
Chairman, Globacom
Governors of The Year
Adams Oshiomhole,
Governor, Edo State
Ibikunle Amosun, Governor,
Ogun State
Kashim Shettima, Governor,
Borno State
Ibrahim Dankwambo, Gombe
State Gov
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