Popular media personality Frank Edoho has revealed what led to his exit from the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” game show. He recently had his say while speaking on an episode of The KK Show, and fans have been reacting.
Disclosing that his exit happened after the show lost its major sponsor, Frank explained that newspaper reports claiming he was sacked as host are false.
Edoho added that WWTBAM stopped airing after a prominent sponsor withdrew support following a regulatory penalty from the Federal Government.
His words, “I was on radio. I worked for Radio Nigeria—that’s the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria—for four years.
You know, once you can work on radio for four years but not get as much popularity or fame as you would if you worked on TV for one month.
So Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? sort of came to an end when our sponsor withdrew.
I don’t know if I can mention brand names here, but our sponsor stayed with us for a decade sponsoring the show.
I think the Federal Government fined them based on some industry… I think it was just like a punitive measure for one corporate thing that happened.
I can’t go into details, but that affected the sponsorship of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? So they said, ‘Hey guys, we can’t do this anymore based on the fact that we have to pay an incredible sum of money back to the Federal Government.’
I went into negotiation because we heard that other sponsors were interested, and I wanted to be an executive producer.
I wanted to have a stake in it because I feel that I built myself up to the extent that I assumed I was an asset to the show.
We were having differences in negotiation. I think it was one newspaper that went and said that I was dropped based on the fact that, with the relaunch of the show under the new sponsor, I wasn’t anywhere to be found. And of course, they would draw conclusions based on that.
So they announced that I was dropped from the show, which was false then. I gave my statement. I said, ‘Okay, you know what? This is it.’ I felt I was thrown under the bus after all the years I put in.”
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