> Rav Ovadia is a Godol
He is a Gadol and a Chacham. As I wrote before gedolim are indirectly elected. Chofetz Chaim did not declare himself a godol. He travelled around, selling his seforim, giving discounts to groups who will learn them … when other Rabbis started sending their shailos to him and to pasken by his seforim, he became the godol.