TOZALI GOVERNOR OF THE YEAR AWARD!!!

Tozali considers the extent to which a particular governor's activities have impacted both his immediate constituency and the rest of the nation. His ability to reach out and cooperate with others, thus forming a synergy for the overall development of the nation, forms a strong criterion for nomination. Those nominated in this category include.

TOZALI GOVERNOR OF THE YEAR AWARD – OWELLE ROCHAS ANAYO OKOROCHA

Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha is a unique Nigerian politician from Imo State. A teacher, great business mogul, great philanthropist of no mean measure, educationist, orator and an apostle of peace, his name is synonymous with success. He has effectively initiated leadership standards at various forms of public endowment and has assisted government agencies and parastatals in initiating ideas, implementing programmes, managing public projects and shaping public policies. His life has long been fully dedicated to salvaging what remains of the dignity of the hopeless and voiceless masses, in order to ensure that the children of the poorest of the poor, as he calls them, have a chance in life through education.

Before he became the governor of Imo State, Chief Okorocha, or Rochas as he is fondly called, founded an NGO to give hope to less privileged children through education. He established the Rochas Foundation college system, a free comprehensive secondary educational institution that offers free tuition, boarding, feeding, transportation and medical care to over 5,000 Nigerian children from indigent homes annually.

He has the requisite ability to inspire awareness of personal rectitude capable of galvanizing the wave of change that uplifts the standard of living amongst the people of Imo state and the world at large. When he became governor, he sponsored agricultural activities with the purpose of creating wealth and stunting poverty, disease, and unemployment and provide equal access to efficient healthcare, well designed public transportation, quality education and security.

In some northern parts of the country, like in Plateau, Kano and Sokoto States, he built the Rochas Foundation College. In appreciation of this service to humanity, he has been given numerous titles by communities and associations within and outside the country. He was conferred with the traditional titles of “Owelle Ndigbo” and “Dan Jekan Sokoto” in a unique and unprecedented ceremony by the body of traditional rulers of the south-east and the North, led by the chairman of the South-east Forum of Traditional Rulers, Eze (Dr.) EzoUkandu, JP, and the late Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido, CFR. He is also the Omorodun of Yoruba land, the Okala of Ehie, the Talban Gwagwalada and Uban Talakawa.