By Dirisu Yakubu
ABUJA-Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike on Thursday emerged BusinessDay Newspaper’s Best Governor of the Year 2017 while the duo of Ibrahim Dankwambo and Rauf Aregbesola bagged the Best Performing Governor, North and South respectively.
The well-attended event which held at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja attracted some first-class traditional rulers including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi; the Emir of Katagun, Umar Kabir, Emir of Misau, Ahmed Suleiman and a representative of the Emir of Bauchi, Galadima Saidu.
Publisher/chief executive officer of BusinessDay, Frank Aigbogun, decried states’ over-reliance on federal allocation, even as he called on states to diversify their respective economies in order to boost their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
Aigbogun further harped on the need for states to take advantage of their resource endowment to…
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