Group names Fayemi Yoruba Man of the Year

Ex-Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has been named as the Yoruba Man of the Year 2022.

The announcement was made by Irohinoodua Publishers Ltd, the first Pan Yoruba online media established in 2010.

The Executive Editor of the group, Mr Taiwo Adeleye, in a statement, said the former Ekiti State Governor won the Yoruba Man of the Year Award 2022 based on three considerations: Development of Education, Security/Regional Integration of the South West and Promotion of Human Rights Ideal.

The group said Fayemi has age on his side adding that with his global network and credibility, he is a potential global leader.

Irohinoodua said Fayemi remains the pioneer of the Laptop for A Child programme which he introduced to Ekiti as far back as 2010.

The media group said the result is a distinguished performance in Education in Ekiti, an effort that reclaimed the floundering momentum of a knowledge driven state.

Under Fayemi, Ekiti was rated as number five according to the Multinational Poverty Index report released by the National Bureau of Statistics.

It noted that other states were to follow the remarkable examples in later years.

Irohinoodua said Fayemi takes the credit for the creation of Amotekun.

“We recall that as far back 2010, he drew up a comprehensive strategy in response to the crisis in the Maghreb region with a futuristic plan to ensure the South West was saved from the spill over.

“The creativity of his ideas was not to be fully reckoned until in later years when Nigeria and the South West began to witness terrorist invasion. He had employed 800 members of the Peace Corps backed with an Act of State Parliament which full potential was momentarily halted due to the change of Government in Ekiti in 2014,” the media group added in the statement.