The 6th Lagos Motor Fair: In humble beginnings

The participants of the Lagos Motor Fair are PAN Nigeria ltd, Stallion, Toyota Nigeria Limited, Asia Motors, National Truck Manufacturers, MRF tyres, Spec Autos Limited and a few more. As it turns out, a number of the exhibitors are new.  It turns out that the participans could be not more than fifteen. In the opening […]

The participants of the Lagos Motor Fair are PAN Nigeria ltd, Stallion, Toyota Nigeria Limited, Asia Motors, National Truck Manufacturers, MRF tyres, Spec Autos Limited and a few more. As it turns out, a number of the exhibitors are new.  It turns out that the participans could be not more than fifteen.

In the opening of the exhibition, the Managing Director of BKG, Mr Ifeanyichukwu Agwu, said the exhibition is still at its “ humble beginnings even after six years”. We at Sunday Trust were informed the next Lagos Motor Fair will be in 2012.

The vehicles displayed were trucks, security vehicles, buses, 4×4 and passenger vehicles and other motor accessories.

During the press briefing, the participants were asked a lot of questions with regards to recent happenings in the auto industry. Toyota Nigeria Limited (TNL) was asked of their recent drop in sells and Stallion Motors on the Porsche product that wasn’t even on display at the exhibition. As regards the drop in sales, TNL Brand Manager, Mr. Bayo Olawoyin attributed it to the credit crunch experienced in the banking sector which in fact became humourous when he tossed over the question to his co-participants from the banking sector. Stallion Motors Porsche issue where not taken like especially when Businessdays motor journalist and Sunday Trust Motoring question on the appearance of the Porsche in the Nigerian market. The answer was that Stallion Motors has a lot on their hands and logistics had to be put in place for the Porsche to go on sale in full scale.

In all, it seems the only participants that have been looking forward to this event is PAN Nigeria, its partners and the new industries. PAN Nigeria came with their service department to exhibit-after sales service for the Peugeot products and they also brought along their new partner from Iran with the new Saipa product. The Saipa product received lot of attention from many of the journalist, and looked very much like the star potential in this event.

On the whole, the Lagos Motor Fair was still successful but a large sector of the auto industry was not well represented. The attention will now be on the Abuja Motor Fair this time next and we hope all the auto industry will come on board.