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OAAN appoints Utomi, Akande as patrons, awaits Sanusi’s acceptance

By Margaret Mwantok
25 April 2017   |   3:47 am
The Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria- OAAN has appointed Professor Patrick Okedinachi Utomi and Chief Dr, Mrs. Onikepo Akande patrons.

Vice President OAAN, Emmanuel Ajufo; Patron, Pat Utomi, President OAAN Babatunde Adedoyin, and Assistant General Secretary, OAAN, Tunde Oyekan at the Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria’s conferment of patron on Utomi in his office in Victoria Island, Lagos recently.

The Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria- OAAN has appointed Professor Patrick Okedinachi Utomi and Chief Dr, Mrs. Onikepo Akande patrons.

This appointment may be as a result of some numerous challenges confronting the practice of outdoor advertising business in Nigeria, and the association believes that these prominent Nigerians will be able to resolve some of these grey areas.

According to OAAN statement, there is a paramount need to seek out respectable individuals who have influence in the society and the government to be the voice of Association.

The OAAN President, Babatunde Adedoyin reiterated that to actual this desire, “we considered a somewhat geo-political spread, selecting people of great repute.”

This gave rise to appointing as a patron, Chief Akande, a foremost Industrialist, and the President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The reason according the OAAN President, “is not only that she occupies a pivotal role in the seat of commerce in Lagos State, but she is perceived to have good will nationwide, having been a two-time Minister of Industry of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Another choice of a patron was Utomi, a one-time Presidential aspirant, a Political Economist who is very vast in socio-economic issues and a veritable tool for advocacy. He is expected to intervene for OAAN in Lagos State, the East and with the Federal government.

“We are looking to secure a Northern Representative as another Patron and have written to the Emir of Kano Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. His reply is still being awaited, Adedoyin said.

Utomi is the founder of Centre for Value in Leadership (CVL and also a professor at Lagos Business School. He has served in senior positions in government, as an adviser to the president of Nigeria, the private sector, as Chief Operating Officer for Volkswagen of Nigeria and in academia.

Akande is a Nigerian economist, accountant and industrialist who currently serve as the President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry and honorary life Vice-President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture.

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