President Tinubu named Leadership Person of the Year 2023

Leadership newspaper on Monday, December 11, announced winners of its 2023 annual awards.

Legit.ng reports that the award is one of the most prestigious and sought-after prizes in the national calendar.

President Bola Tinubu, the 16th and current Nigerian leader, scooped the Person of the Year 2023 prize.

The paper announced: “For a can-do spirit that has marked him out as a quintessential politician, for bracing monumental odds to emerge as the candidate of his party, the APC, and winning the 2023 presidential election; and for a raft of difficult but necessary decisions to reposition the country, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is Person of the Year 2023."

Peter Obi is Politician of the Year

Meanwhile, President Tinubu's opponent in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, got the nomination of the board of editors as the Politician of the Year following the pleasant shock treatment he administered on the polity as a first-timer in a presidential race.

The jurists said they were impressed with how Obi drew admiration from the electorate, especially young people.