Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State and his counterpart in Cross River State, Liyel Imoke, will both receive the Housing Governor Award during the 7th Abuja Housing Show/stakeholders conference on housing finance, building approval and town planning laws for their contributions to housing development in their respective states.
According to the organisers of the show, the governors, during their first term in office, developed not less than 5,000 housing unit for civil servants in their states through the Public-Private Partnership model.
The Coordinator of the 7th Abuja Housing Show and Chief Executive Officer, FESADEB Communications Limited, Mr. Festus Adebayo, said the event was an annual programme for honouring, recognising and encouraging those who had contributed to the development of the housing sector in Nigeria.
According to him, the show, which is scheduled for on June 25 and 26, 2013 will take place in Abuja, will feature 50 exhibitors in the housing sector and not less than 1,000 attendees from all over the country, including all the state commissioners for Lands, Housing and Urban Development.
