Rivers NUJ Chairman Congratulates New President, Others, Harps On Sensitizing Union
The chairman of the Rivers State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Job Stanley Job has charged the newly elected national executive of the union to place the issue of containing quackery among their members top in their agenda.
Mr Stanley Job made the charge while congratulating the new NUJ President, Mr. Chris Ikechukwu Isiguzo for coming up tops in a keenly contested election during the just concluded 6th Triennial Delegates Conference at Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) over the Weekend elected a new national president, Chris Ikechukwu Isiguzo among other officials of the union.
Comrade Chris Isiguzo defeated the incumbent president, Waheed Odusile and six other contenders to take over the mantle of leadership of the pen fraternity in Nigeria.
Waheed Odusile who lost to his successor by 17 votes differentials scored a total of 329 votes against Isiguzo’s 346 votes.
The chairman of the Rivers State council of the NUJ, Mr. Stanley Job who led 50 other members of the council to the ancient city of Abeokuta commended the impressive turn-out of media practitioners from the six zones of the union across the country, and the peaceful and transparent conduct of the elections.
He also congratulated Pastor Edward Ogude for emerging as the Vice-President, zone F at same delegates conference.
The Rivers NUJ chairman said with the caliber of the Isiguzo-led exco and the indisputable experience of the individual officers, the most of the mistakes of the past administrations will be corrected and the welfare of journalists across the country largely improved upon.
Recall that the 37 official delegates from the Rivers State Council made the difference at the ‘Abeokuta 2018’ elections.
Some of the representatives of the council include the Chief Scribe of the Council, Ike Wigodo and other Exco members, Boye Salau, the Director of IIJ, Port Harcourt campus, Dr. Ibitoru Pepple, the Political Editor of The TIDE, Victor Tew, Karl Chinedu of the BEACON, Azubuike Azubuike of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), RSTV’s Toby, great Nawojians led by their Chairman, Lilian Okonkwo and the GM of National Network Group of Newspapers, Chris Konkwo among others.
Similarly, the new President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Mr. Chris Ikechukwu Isiguzo has visited the family of Sam Nweke, Vice Chairman of the Ebonyi State Council of NUJ who died in an armed robbery attack, in Nkalagu, on Saturday.
Mr. Nweke and some colleagues, who were injured in the attack, were on their way from the NUJ convention in Abeokuta, where Mr. Isiguzo was elected a day earlier.
