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Aregbesola wins 2013 National Chronicle’s ‘Man of the Year’

The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola has won the National Chronicle newspaper Man of the Year award for 2013.
Governor Rauf Aregbesola defeated Governor Ibrahim Sheu Shema of Katsina State and the Minister of Agriculture, Akinwunmi Adesina to the second and third place respectively.
To emerge as the National Chronicle man of the year award for 2013, the Osun State helmsman polled total of seventy one thousand (71,000) votes out of the over one hundred thousand readers of the newspaper who participated in the poll. Governor Shema came distant second with over twenty thousand votes, while the minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwumi Adesina came third with over ten thousand votes.
In the letter announcing his victory and nomination as the National Chronicle man of the year 2013 award to the Osun State governor, the publisher and Editor in Chief of the newspaper Timothy Okojie-Ave described Aregbesola “as a leader who has reached unsurpassed level of excellence and achievement, a hero and quintessential nationalist who has become a driving power in shaping our society and who deserves a second term.”
Important personalities who have won the National Chronicle man of the year award are former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, former Edo State governor, Prof Oserheimen Osunbor and the incumbent Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan.
Governor Aregbesola has accepted the award and the date for the formal presentation will be announced later by the management of the newspaper.