More Dead Men Found On FG’s List Of Board Appointees

Dead on Arrival: Three of the dead men on the list. Clockwise: Ukpozo, Utov and Ugbaja

More dead men are being dug up from the latest list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s board appointments.

At the last count, Nigerians have identified five names of dead people on the list since NewsmakersNG first published the discovery of the late Second Republic senator and member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Francis Okpozo who made the list as Chairman of the Nigerian Press Council (NPC).

Okpozo died at 81, in 2016, and the Presidency issued a statement on December 28, 2016 expressing condolences to the government of Delta State on his death.

The other discoveries are: Rev Fr Christopher Ierwua Utov, Retd DIG Donald Ugbaja, Garba Attahiru Kaduna, and Umar Dange Sokoto.

The late Utov is on the list as member of the Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research. He was the founder and proprietor of Fidei Polytechnic, Gboko, in Benue State.

The late DIG Ugbaja is on the list as member, Consumer Protection Council.