Few weeks ago, Nigerian singer Onyeka Onwenu was appointed as a member of the newly inaugurated Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) advisory board. We’ve now been told the singer turned politician has openly rejected the appointment.
According to her, ‘I received with
consternation the news that I have been appointed as a member of COSON
Advisory Board. I was never contacted or informed by COSON directly
until this appointment was announced on the pages of newspapers’.
She also added, ‘The idea of an
Advisory Council is that of Tony Okoroji. He raised it at the last
COSON General Meeting, right before the pre-determined election of a new
board. It was not a decision of the old board and certainly not the new
one which is made up of people who will rubber stamp his decision’.
‘Ordinarily, if properly canvassed
with a sincere purpose, an Advisory Council for COSON would not be a bad
idea’, Onyeka said, according to The Vanguard.
She continues ‘As it is, the move was made to ameliorate the impact of the coup, the schemes and shenanigans that characterised the
last board elections; where people like Chief Ebenezer Obey, Laolu
Akins, Toju Ejueyitchie, Charlimo, Sikiru Agbola and myself, all who are
on the board as sticklers for due process, were schemed out by a well
selected list of voters, most of whom had proxies. Well, we are not
fooled, I hereby reject my appointment’, she concluded.
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