Ayanwale, Awosika in final battle for APCON Chairmanship

The duo of Kola Ayanwale, Executive Vice Chairman, Centrespread Advertising, and Jimi Awosika, Managing Director, Troyka Holdings are reportedly in the final run-in for the vacant position of Council Chairman of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON).
Information gathered by this medium sated that the Information Ministry has already sent in the names of Ayanwale and Awosika to the President for final selection.
Kola Ayanwale
The announcement of APCON Chairman, which, we learnt, will be made any time soon, will end the leadership vacuum created by the absence of a Council Chairman for the advertising regulator for over a year now.
Jimi Awosika
Mr Udeme Ufot, Managing Director of SO&U had been appointed to Chair the Council by the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration shortly before the elections and handing over of 2015, but he was removed from office when the then new government of Muhammadu Buhari dissolved the boards of agencies and departments of the Federal Government.
It was learnt Udeme, who spent only a few months on the saddle could have been retained but for the feeling that he was alleged to either belong to, or was too close to the former ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Udeme Ufot
APCON has not had a Chairman since July 2016 when the government dissolved its Council and stakeholders have been calling on the government to reconstitute it for greater efficiency.
Lai Mohammed
One group, the Brand Journalists Association of Nigeria, BJAN, an umbrella body of journalists covering brands and integrated marketing communications in Nigeria, in a statement, had urged the Federal Government to make top priority, the reconstitution of the APCON board without further delay in order to save the advertising industry from imminent collapse.
The statement signed by the President of BJAN, Mr. Goddie Ofose, decried the dissolution of the Council for almost two years, as the nonexistence of APCON council has been crippling activities in the industry, leaving it with little or no rule enforcement.
Goddie Ofose
“As it is right now, both APCON and FG are losing money because nobody brings an online advert to APCON for vetting; APCON sub-committee lacks the power to go to any online to vet their adverts, because there is no council. And when the council is not there, business, our industry actually suffers over exposure.”
Culled from BRANDish Online. 
Edited by ‘Dele Dele-Olukoju, Marketing Communication strategist and publisher of the online Marketing Communication Digest. He writes from Lagos, Nigeria. @deleolukoju +234 807 481 2389. 

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