2027: NBC digital switchover will create national crisis — Ohuabunwa tells Tinubu to intervene

Public affairs expert and businessman, Godfrey Ohuabunwa, has raised an alarm implicit the planned National Broadcasting Commission’s, NBC, integer power from analogue up of the 2027 wide election. 

In a connection on Wednesday, Ohuabunwa said the determination whitethorn effect successful a nationalist catastrophe and superior risk.

According to him, the existent attack being implemented by the NBC appears rushed, unclear, and inconsistent with the existing 2012 Digital Switchover (DSO) White Paper approved by the Federal Executive Council.

He noted that the planned modulation is simply a specified aggregation of channels connected NigComSat platforms and not a implicit Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) migration arsenic primitively approved nether Nigeria’s DSO framework.

Ohuabunwa, who doubled arsenic the president of the Association of Licensed Set-Top Box Manufacturers of Nigeria, urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene to halt disorder being created by the NBC. 

“Mr President, Nigeria cannot spend disorder successful its broadcasting strategy astatine a clip the federation is preparing for different captious antiauthoritarian transition.” “The clip to enactment is now,” helium stated. 

Recall that NBC had announced 2027 arsenic the m...