Ogun NUJ Sends SOS To Governor Dapo Abiodun

By Raymond Osho

ABEOKUTA – Leadership of the Ogun State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), led by Comrade Omolola Adeyinka has sent a message of “Save our Union” to the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun (MFR)

According to a release e-signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l & online – www.startrendinternational.com by Comrade Omolola Adeyinka, the Chairman, Ogun NUJ Caretaker Committee, the Union is soliciting for the intervention of the State Government, by calling the Chief Press Secretary, (CPS) to the Governor, Mr Kunle Somorin to order, to desist from truncating the relative peace enjoyed in Ogun NUJ.

Since the emergence of the current leadership of Ogun NUJ, the release stated, “series of letters had been written to the State Government, through the Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mr Waheed Odusile and the CPS Kunle Somorin, stating the position of the State NUJ Council on some Chapels leadership namely Federated and Correspondents: that the duly and recognized Chairmen by the National and State NUJ are: Comrade AbuSatar Idowu Hamed for Federated Chapel and Comrade Rasak Ayinla for Correspondents Chapel.

“However, to our dismay, the CPS continue with his divide and rule tactics by recognizing the disclaimed members, who are professing themselves about, but not recognized by the Union because their purported kangaroo elections were not supervised nor inaugurated by the State Council of NUJ.

“All our efforts to maintain Peace and Order and to uphold the legacy of Ogun State been the Cradle of Journalism, left to us by our foremost leaders in Journalism such as Chief Olusegun Osoba, the Akinrogun of Egbaland and a former Governor of this State, are been thwarted by the CPS Kunle Somorin, According to him ” I cannot wave them aside, I have to condone them, because they are my Paddy Paddy” .

Comrd. Adeyinka stated further, “We therefore call on the Commissioner of Information, Mr Waheed Odusile, a former and immediate Past, National President of NUJ to use his good office to join hands together with the State Council leadership to find a lasting and permanent solution to the lockgam in Ogun NUJ and to grant the leadership of the State Council audience as requested from him since his appointment as the Commissioner for Information, which is yet to be obliged.

“It would be recalled that Ogun NAWOJ and Ogun SWAN are all Associations under Ogun NUJ. Their elections were supervised and inaugurated by Ogun NUJ Council. There are no crises in Ogun SWAN as rumoured by some misinformed people. Ogun NUJ family is one.”