It was emotional watching Bayo Omoboriowo, Buhari’s official Photographer being interview on Channels TV
Interviewer: How did you became Buhari official Photographer?
Bayo: I tell you, it was a story of from Mushin to the world. My father is a local photographer. I remember hawking pure water too.
My father did not even know our local govt chairman not to talk of any big politician.
I went to University of Lagos and studied pure and applied chemistry. I finished with 4.262 GPA. While in school, I borrow camera from friend and started taking pictures in events.
One day, I was watching TV and saw advert for the APC national convention in Teslim Balogun Stadium.
So I picked my camera and off I went.
When “General Buhari” came into the stadium, everybody started running after him and I follow and take pictures.
Then I noticed they stole my iphone, phone of over N100,000 by then. I was demoralized and pained. So I told God, please you have to compensate me for a job I do for free. A gentle prayer that it was, I never know God heard it.
So I couldn’t go home that night, I slept on the floor in the stadium. I never know some people saw me.
Then campaign started. A media firm was contacted to manage Presidential campaign social media handle. The firm noticed they cannot perform optimally without a Photographer. Bicos one of them saw me sleeping on the floor the other time, I was contacted. We started the campaign and that was how General Buhari took a notice of me.
After Election, he send for me and said it has to be me. That was how I became his official Photographer for 8 years and travel all over the world with me and winning so many local and international award. “