ACE BROADCASTER, ABBEY FAGBORO SET TO BE INSTALLED "ODOKA" OF ERIJIYAN EKITI

His voice is very discernible on air. And that distinction owes partly to his intonation and not just the brilliance of his presentation. High Chief David Abbey Fagboro (JP), a popular freelance broadcaster is a very proud Ekiti man. And the leading independent presenter carries the identity of his native land in his voice just like some people from the countryside demonstrate theirs in their tribal marks. So, any time the resourceful media guru who presents mostly on radio is on air, he does not need much introduction before knowing it is him.

The MD/CEO of Abbey International Communication, a contemporary of late Gbenga Adeboye who is a well respected media figure amongst the flock of his younger colleagues in the freelance media business is about to add a new feather to his cap. And his well-deserved honour is coming from the source for a true son of the soil.

Come December 11th, 2015, distinguished monarch, the Olohan of Erijiyan Ekiti would officially be conferring a lofty title of "Odoka" of Erijiyan Ekiti on the presenter of a very popular Sunday morning Christianity-based thought-provoking programme, "L'owuro Sunday" on Faaji 106.5 F.M., Lagos between the hours of 7 and 10 am every week. Consequently dubbed the General Overseer (G.O) on the radio due to the very wide and inter-religious listenership and acceptance of the programme, Abbey Fagboro has reportedly set machineries in motion to receive his new title in a glamorous way.


With almost all his co-members of Freelance and Independent Broadcasters' Association of Nigeria (FIBAN) getting set to storm Erijiyan Ekiti with him on the day, one can predict the event would be the talk of the town when held.

Interestingly, some of the witty members of the association who present programmes on different radio stations across the South-West have started making malapropism out of Abbey Fagboro's new title by calling it "Odoko" instead of "Odoka". But funnily enough, "Odoko" which simply means a "promiscous woman" is only a Yoruba “vulgar” attribution suitable for a woman not a man like Abbey Fagboro.