Ajuri Obari Ngelale (born 13 November 1986) is a Nigerian broadcast journalist and politician who served as presidential spokesman to president Bola Tinubu.
[12] His father was a geologist and politician who was elected to the Rivers State House of Assembly in the Third Republic and served until General Muhammadu Buhari's military coup of 1983.
[2] Ngelale started journalism career as a youth corps member at Africa Independent Television where he was deployed for his one-year national service.
[11] He left AIT in 2016 and joined Channels Television where he served as a co-anchor of popular public policy discussion program Sunrise Daily and in partnership with the United States Government's Mandela Washington Fellowship, produced and presented Africa's Future Leaders which documented young African leaders uplifting disadvantaged population through their individual efforts.
[19][20] On 7 September 2024, Ngelale resigned indefinitely from his role as the presidential spokesman for President Tinubu to address medical issues affecting his immediate family.