The Group Managing Director of OOK Farms Group, Ms. Omolara Svensson has felicitated with the Group Managing Director of Niji Groups, Mr. Kolawole Adeniji, on his appointment as “honorary citizen of the great State of Nebraska”, in the United States of America, USA.
Omolara in her congratulatory message, which was made available to Ibadan Media, on Saturday described the appointment as a well-deserved position for Mr. Kola as an exemplary leader.
“On behalf of OOK Farms and myself, I want to congratulate our boss in the industry He is an exemplary leader, a man worth emulating, a man who is an epitome of knowledge and good character and has been a good example for everyone and facilitator of success to a lot of us in the Agric. sector in Nigeria and Africa. There would have not been lots of us coming today to be doing well in the Agric. sector without someone like him”, she noted.
According to the certificate of appointment sighted by Ibadan Media, the Nebraska Secretary of State, Robert B. Evnem, noted that the “Honorary Citizen of Nebraska shall be expected to consider The Great State of Nebraska on your home away from home to the extent that frequent visits to Nebraska are encouraged in order to renew old acquaintances, meet new Nebraskans, and keep current on Nebraska’s remarkable progress and growth”
While continuing in her goodwill message, Omolara encourages more people to emulate Mr. Adeniji by helping more people to attain greater heights.
“I want to encourage more people to start doing like him by pulling people up and be part of their success story.”
She, therefore, concluded by inspiring the general public to go back to farming as that is the only way to get the country out of poverty.
“Also, let me encourage us that we all need to go back to farming, as this is the only way we can all pull this country out of poverty. The wealth we are all looking for as a nation is in agriculture.”
