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83yr old Senator Biyi Durojaiye, appointed new chairman of NCC

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President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the Senate to confirm nominees into positions of Chairman, Executive Commissioner, and Non-Executive Commissioners of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

Among the nominees is 83yr old former presidential aspirant, Senator Biyi Durojaiye, as the new chairman,

In a letter dated August 2, 2016, sent to President of the Senate, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye (South West) was nominated as Chairman, while Mr. Sunday Dare (South West) got the nod as Executive Commissioner, Stakeholders Management.

Those nominated as Non-Executive Commissioners are: Aliyu Sa’idu Abubakar (North East), Clement Omeiza Baiye (North Central), Chief Okoi Ofem Obono Obla (South South), Pastor Ezekiel Yissa (North Central) and Senator Ifeanyi Ararume (South East).

Olabiyi Durojaiye was elected Senator for the Ogun East constituency of Ogun State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.

He also uses the tribal title Otunba as a pre-nominal title and is a Yoruba leader. 

Durojayi was an elected member of the 1988/89 Constituent Assembly.[3] In 1992 he was a candidate to run for President of Nigeria on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), losing to M.K.O. Abiola. 

He was an elected Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999-2003)

The nominations are in accordance with Section 8(1) of the Nigerian Communications Commission Act 2003, Presidential Media Adviser, Femi Adesina said in a statement on Tuesday.


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