I’m driven by excellence –Obiano

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has said his driving force in his 18 months as the state’s chief executive is his passion for excellence.
Governor Obiano stated this in an exclusive chat with a team of The Sun’s editors.
The governor told The Sun delegation that in his 20 months on the saddle as governor, he had received at the last six awards, but The Sun award was the best of all.
His words: “I feel delighted to welcome all of you this morning to this Lodge. I am very excited and delighted too to be found worthy by your Board of Editors as the Governor of the Year 2015. As you said, in your 13 years as an organisation, no governor has made this award, so I feel delighted to be the first to be so appointed, it is not easy to be the first.

“I can assure you that I will remain focused in those things that you found worthy that I deserved the first, my people deserve the best. Our mantra is to do more with less in these challenging times, but we must remain very focused.
“Clearly, some of the things that are assisting me are my background as a renowned accountant and banker. As we came in, we hit the ground running, we said that security is the first thing to be tackled, believing that other things will be added if we deal decisively with security and that was how we set up Operation Mkpochapu; so we dealt with criminals decisively and we have continued to do so; and Anambra remains the most secured state in Nigeria today and we are getting investors to come in here to do business with us.
“So, I am very delighted that some of these little things we are doing are noted by you; The Sun newspaper is a medium I have a lot of respect for, I appreciate this award, I have so many awards in my 18 months as governor; at the last count, I have six of them, five national and one international. But this The Sun award as far as I’m concerned, is the best of them all. I can promise Ndi Anambra that I will not let them down, that this award will motivate me to work harder and to continue to give them the best democracy dividends in Nigeria.”
BY CHIDI NNADI