The Minister for Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo; Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Festus Keyamo and Minister of Works, David Umahi, have jointly won Ireland based newspaper, The Street Journal’s ‘Super Minister’ award in President Bola Tinubu’s first year in office.
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The publisher of StreetJournal Newspaper, Mogaji Wole Arisekola, who is also the National Chairman of the Association of Online Media Practitioners in Nigeria AMPCON disclosed that the trio emerged winners after collectively winning the majority votes in the online poll organised by the newspaper.
While Tunji-Ojo garnered over 80,000 votes, Keyamo and Umahi both garnered over 70,000 votes.
Tunji-Ojo immediately started reforms in the interior ministry. From uncovering 2,400 foreigners with fake National Identity Numbers (NIN) attempting to acquire Nigerian passports, to home delivery of international passports to several other reforms, the actions of the 42 year old former House of Representatives member hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Keyamo on arriving office, quickly took up responsibilities associated with the ministry.
He has succeeded in restoring dignity and confidence to the sector with innovative reforms in line with global best practices by always promoting national security interests.
On his part, Umahi, a trained engineer deployed his pragmatic and courageous reforms in the Ministry aimed at addressing road infrastructural deficit in Nigeria using locally sourced materials such as cement for road construction.
By spearheading Nigeria’s prospect in building sustainable and cost efficient and effective roads with cement concrete which is less expensive and more durable than those built with asphalt, Umahi won the hearts of the voting public.
Reacting to the result of the poll, Arisekola, congratulated the ministers for emerging joint winners of the online poll which he said was put together as his own contribution to national development and as a means of spurring the ministers to be outstanding in their duties and not just remain sitting ducks.
“The poll is credible, cannot be manipulated or influenced. The poll has been designed in such a way that one cannot vote more than once, and one can see how the votes are cast. So, voters can be rest assured that their votes will count,” he said.
The inaugural edition saw the Minister for Women’s Affairs, Uju Kennedy Ohaneye, emerge winner for the month of October.
She came tops in the poll which had four other ministers such as Umahi, Edu, Anete and Tunji-Ojo, all contending for the award.
The second edition saw the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, emerge winner.
