Group names Fayemi Yoruba Man of Year 2022
15 January 2023 |
4:57 am
The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has been named “Yoruba Man of the Year 2022” by IrohinOodua Publishers, the first Pan Yoruba online media established in 2010.
Former Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi
•Lists Awolowo As Best Thinker, Ransome Kuti Family Yoruba Greatest In A Century
The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has been named “Yoruba Man of the Year 2022” by IrohinOodua Publishers, the first Pan Yoruba online media established in 2010.
In a statement by the executive editor of the group, Mr. Taiwo Adeleye, Fayemi won the award based on three considerations: development of education, security/regional integration of the South West and the promotion of human rights ideals.
Describing Fayemi as a potential global leader, the group said that he has age on his side besides his global network and credibility.
IrohinOodua said that it was significant that Fayemi got elected last September as the President of the Forum of Regions in Africa in the city of Saidia in Morocco, under the auspices of His Majesty, King Mohammed VI.
IrohinOodua said that Fayemi remains the pioneer of the “Laptop for A Child” programme, which he introduced in Ekiti as far back as 2010, adding that the result is a distinguished performance in education in Ekiti, an effort that reclaimed the floundering momentum of a knowledge-driven state.
IrohinOodua said that it should be observed that in the face of very limited resources, Fayemi was able to establish the first state-owned cargo airport and Ekiti has emerged as the most rights-sensitive state in Nigeria, as evidenced in the domestication of the Freedom of Information Law, with the state being the first to carry out the initiative.
IrohinOodua also listed former Premier of the Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo as the greatest thinker of the last century, while the Ransome Kuti Family was announced as the greatest of the Yoruba families in the past century.
IrohinOodua said Awolowo wrote books that addressed past, present, and future problems of Nigeria, adding that his political ideas made him relevant at all times.
It noted that the Ransome Kuti family have done the Yoruba proud locally and internationally beginning from the iconic Josiah Ransome Kuti, a clergyman, an educationist, a human rights activist, and a composer, through his son, Josiah Kuti, and other family members, who over the years have sustained a libertarian tradition motivated by creativity, resistance against injustice, service to humanity and the empowerment of millions of people through the provision of knowledge and music.
Past recipients of the Yoruba Man of the Year were Prof Wole Soyinka, Prof Banji Akintoye, and Ariyo Adeniran, a United States-based heart surgeon.
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