ADB President Akin Adesina Bags 2023 Awolowo Leadership Award.

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Prof Akin Adesina



Call him Super President, you may not be wrong.
Professor Akin Adesina, President of the African Development Bank is always in the news for good and genuine reasons. This time around, the continent’s number one technocrat has added another feather to his cap as he bags the Obafemi Awolowo biennial leadership award for the year 2023.

Announcing the winner of the award, The former Secretary General of the Commonwealth who is also the chairman of the selection committee for the award disclosed on Thursday at a press conference in Lagos that the award is an initiative to preserve the leadership legacy of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was the continent’s best performing politician in the area of service delivery on the dividends of democracy.

In Anyaoku’s word, the award “was established as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organisation dedicated to immortalising the democratic and development-oriented ideals of Chief Obafeni Awolowo.”

It is “a prestigious, biennial, international prize structured to follow a rigorous process of nomination and subsequent screening by a selection committee consisting of some of the most outstanding Nigerians.”

So many names were nominated from different fields of endeavors and after careful review of the names, the award goes to the distinguished, noble Professor Adesina.

Anyaoku says, “After a careful, detailed and rigorous screening process, the selection committee was unanimous in deciding the recipient of this year’s prize. I have great pleasure to inform you that the considered view of the selection committee is that, of all the nominees presented before it, the person adjudged to possess the attributes for the award to the highest degree and therefore, the recipient of the 2023 Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership is Dr. Akinwunmi Ayodeji Adesina, CON, President of the African Development Bank,”

Speaking further, Anyaoku describes Adesina as, “a Pan-Africanist with enthusiastic commitment to the positive transformation of the continent, who had demonstrated core leadership qualities that had been associated with Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and which this prize is meant to encourage and reward.”

Chief Anyaoku did not stop at that, he says, “Since assuming office as President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Dr. Adesina has worked relentlessly to contribute to the positive transformation of the continent. He has brought leadership to bear in addressing some of the challenges confronting the continent including leading and supporting innovative efforts to fight hunger and poverty.”

In his X (Twitter) account, Adesina says, “I am delighted to have been selected as recipient of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership. Joining Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka and former President of South Africa, Thani Mbeki, prior winners of the Prize is such a great honor”




The award will be presented to Professor Adesina on March 6, 2024 to celebrate Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s 115th birthday.

The ONN celebrates Professor Adesina on this well-deserved award.

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