Media personality Frank Edoho has clarified that his departure from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was not a sacking but the result of the show’s decade-long sponsor withdrawing after being fined by the Federal Government, with subsequent negotiations over an executive producer stake breaking down before a new sponsor came on board.
Frank Edoho has had enough of the sacking story — and he is telling his own version.
The veteran media personality addressed the circumstances of his Who Wants to Be a Millionaire exit during an appearance on The KK Show published on Sunday, flatly contradicting newspaper reports that he was dropped from the programme and offering a detailed account of what actually happened behind the scenes.
As reported by The Punch , Edoho said the show effectively ended when its long-standing sponsor — who had backed it for a decade — withdrew following a Federal Government fine over a corporate matter. “Our sponsor stayed with us for a decade sponsoring the show,” he said. “I think the Federal Government fined them based on some industry… it was just like a punitive measure for one corporate thing that happened. 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.'”
When word emerged that new sponsors were interested in reviving the show, Edoho said he entered negotiations hoping to secure not just his hosting role but an executive producer stake, arguing that his years on the programme had made him an integral asset to its identity.
“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,” he said.
Those negotiations broke down. The show was relaunched under new sponsorship without him — and the absence fuelled widespread speculation that he had been sacked, a narrative he described as false.
Edoho also reflected on his career trajectory, recalling four years at Radio Nigeria before television gave him the national profile radio never could. “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,” he noted.
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