Oyebanji Receives Marketing Edge Award, Acknowledged For Leadership And Outstanding Achievement In Marketing

The management of Marketing Edge Magazine and organisers of the newly rebranded EDGE Awards have named Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, as ‘Outstanding Governor of the Year for Inclusive Leadership and Grassroots Development’ in the 2024 edition of its annual awards and recognitions.

Oyebanji, who will mark two years in office next month, was unanimously voted for the coveted category by a team of assessors and Editorial Board, who evaluated the governor’s approach to governance, development and leadership, alongside other governors.

The organisers, who made this known in a statement signed by the Editor-in-Chief of the marketing journal, John Ajayi, at the weekend, said the award was given to the governor in recognition and celebration of his political credentials as a respected technocrat and a renowned public servant, who had not only impacted the people of the state with laudable projects and policies, but also used his exalted position to redefine governance by promoting peace and uniting leaders across the states, irrespective of their political and social backgrounds.

The management of Marketing Edge Magazine noted Oyebanji’s sterling performances as the governor of Ekiti State, in which office he had distinguished himself through exemplary inclusiveness in governance, as well as his result-oriented, transformative turnaround in the infrastructural landscape of the state, particularly in projects and policies that engendered grassroots development across the state.

The statement said: “In the last two years, Governor Oyebanji has distinguished himself through exemplary continuing and result-oriented, transformative turnaround in the infrastructural landscape of the state.

“Your Excellency parades a record that is already speaking for itself and is being applauded, recognised and celebrated across Nigeria and beyond, over the years.”

The organisers said they had watched with keen interest the Oyebanji administration’s consistent and result-driven initiatives in the areas of youths’ empowerment through employment creation, agricultural development and daring moves to generate employment and boost personnel capacity in guaranteeing a successful educational development in the state.