SPEAKING ON HIS EIGHT YEARS AS BUHARI’S OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER, BAYO OMOBORIOWO SAID, “HE NEVER ASKED ME TO SHOW HIM HIS PICTURES.”

Babatunji Wusu –

Omoboriowo asserts that once Buhari assigns you a task, he has faith in your ability to do it and deliver results with little oversight.

He continued by saying that Buhari never requested to see the type of photos he shot of him throughout the eight years he served as the President’s official photographer.

Omoboriowo claims that although Buhari didn’t give much thought to his pictures, he had the right stance and, because he knew what he had to do, always made sure his principal had the greatest shots.

He said, “For eight years, President Buhari never asked me to show him the images I created.

“If he has chosen you, he believed you have the capacity to deliver on that role… And that was one thing very unique about him; he gives you the role and allows you to express yourself.”

Omoboriowo disclosed that his job afforded him the opportunity of access to the ex-President and other heads of states, saying, “Sometimes, I am the only one in the room with the president at international gatherings with heads of states.”

When the former president was ill back in 2017, Omoboriowo said the time of the ex-president’s illness “very challenging,” since Buhari, who was once nimble and plump, suddenly dropped a lot of weight due to the illness.

“Those periods were periods when I needed to portray a man in fairness. That he was President shouldn’t take away the fact he is human and I needed to have that mindset because there is very little margin for error in this work.

“The way I presented him has to be fair yet accurate, has to be creative yet professional. That was the balance and it was very emotional for me at that period because someone with so much agility, all of a sudden;

“… I have to be sure he is dressing right because he had lost so much weight at that time. It was a whole lot and it was quite emotional but we were able to document that process.”