▪︎ Mandates Crusoe Osagie to focus on reviving State-owned Observer newspaper
Governor Godwin Obaseki has appointed a veteran journalist, Mr Andrew Okungbowa, as his Chief Press Secretary, CPS, thus ending the almost seven-year monopoly of the headship of the government house media unit by Mr Crusoe Osagie.
The Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie, conveyed Governor Obaseki’s approval of Okungbowa’s appointment in a statement issued on Tuesday.
Before now, Osagie had superintended the Government House unit as Special Adviser to the Governor on Media Projects, covering the entire field of media affairs.
In fact, for the first time since 1999, the state government house media had from 2016 until now been run without a CPS who should normally interface between the governor and the local media in Edo.
The schedule of the Special Adviser on Media is normally to relate with external media on behalf of the governor or to interface between his principal and the media professionals in Lagos, Abuja, and elsewhere outside Edo State.
The feelers that reached THE CONCLAVE newsroom on Tuesday afternoon were that Governor Obaseki had relieved Crusoe Osagie of his headship of the Government House Media..
THE CONCLAVE learnt that Crusoe Osagie had been directed to focus on reviving the Nigerian Observer, the state-owned newspaper, which had been out of circulation for over a year now.
THE CONCLAVE reports that Mr Okungbowa, until his appointment, had worked as a media consultant and Editor with Daily Telegraph.
Okungbowa is an alumnus of the University of Benin and UNILAG, where he obtained first degree in Theatre Arts and master degree in English, respectively.
Okungbowa was President of Association of Nigeria Writers and Journalists of Tourism. As believed, he will be bringing his vast experience in the field of journalism in his new task of revamping the public image of the Obaseki-led government.
THE CONCLAVE reports that there is a cautious excitement in the media environment in Edo over the rejigging of the Government House Media as journalists keep their fingers crossed to see how Okungbowa would be able to change the perceived anti-media disposition of the Obaseki government.
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