Lai Mohammed’s APC Factional Chairman Appointed To Head NBC Board

Factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Kwara State, Hon Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa, BOB, an ally of the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has been appointed chairman of the governing board of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC.

Also appointed to the board of the commission was Mr Obiora Ilo, a veteran broadcaster and alumnus of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA.

President Muhammadu Buhari approved the reconstitution of the Governing Board following the expiration of the tenure of the former Board according to a statment issued in Abuja on Wednesday by Lai Mohammed.

According to the statement, other members, who were appointed to represent various interests as stipulated by the NBC Act were Mr. Wada Asab Ibrahim, Mr. Iheanyichukwu Azubike Dike, Mrs. Adesola Oyinloye Ndu and Mr. Olaniyan Olatunji Badmus.

Also on the NBC Board are Mr. Bashir Ibrahim, Mr. Obiora Ilo, Mr, Ahmad

Sajo, Engr. Bayo Erikitola, a representative of the State Security Service, a representative of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture as well as the Director-General of the Commission.

The new board has a three-year tenure according to the statement issued by Segun Adeyemi, Special Assistant To The President (Media) Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, Abuja.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Bolarinwa or BOB as he is popularly known has been at the face of the Lai Mohammed group in the struggle with Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq for supremacy in the Kwara State chapter of the APC.

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