Senator Orji Kalu has emerged the 2022 winner of the ‘Best Senator of the Year in Constituency Projects’ in the forthcoming Leadership Excellence Awards.
Kalu who is representing Abia North Senatorial District at the Upper Chamber and is the Chief Whip of the Senate, got 283, 011 votes. He defeated Senator Adetokumbo Abiru, who got 83,204 votes, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, 128,330 votes and Senator Barau Jubrin, 72, 276 votes, to emerge winner in a nationwide online poll monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria.
The coveted award, endorsed by the African Union and African Film Institute, will be presented to him soon.
The former governor of Abia State and first term senator has within three years, facilitated the construction of over 50 roads in Abia North.
Elected in 2019, Senator Kalu has continued to receive commendations as a result of the infrastructural and empowerment projects attracted to Abia North in his first term at the Senate.
Some of the projects facilitated by Kalu include; construction of 2.5km rural roads across the five local governments in Abia North; renovation of schools, hospitals; provision of learning materials to students; distribution of over 1000 sewing machines, power generation sets , motorcycles to farmers and artisans.
