By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
MR. Ifeanyi Olannye of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has emerged as the new chairman of the Asaba Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Among those who also emerged were Mr. Matthew Ochei of the Punch Newspapers (Vice Chairman), and Oghenero Eghweree of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) as Secretary.
Others in the chapel’s executive also included comrades Mike Oladapo as Assistant Secretary, Mrs Eucharia Ezeabi as Treasurer and Mrs Efemena Ogbo, as Financial Secretary.
Chairman of the Delta State Council of the NUJ, Comrade Churchill Oyowe, after the poll, swore in the new executive to pilot the affairs of the Asaba Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ for the next three years.
Comrade Oyowe, in hid speech during the swearing-in taxed the new executive to carry all members along in the affairs of the chapel regardless of the outcome of the election.
He also urged them to embrace professionalism and peaceful disposition in their activities.
The NUJ chairman, who described the Asaba Correspondents’ Chapel as the hub of the creme de la creme of journalists in the state, urged members of the sub-union to work progressively with the State Council of the NUJ and other organisations for the development of Delta State and the well-being of residents.
Meanwhile, the new Chairman of the Asaba Correspondents’ Chapel, Mr. Ifeanyi Olannye, in his inaugural speech, promised to hit the ground running with the immediate constitution of a welfare, reconciliation and economic committees of his regime.
He commended members of the chapel for their mature disposition towards the just-concluded electoral process and solicited their support to enable the new executive succeed in its objectives.
In the keenly-contested chairmanship race, Olannye got 13 votes, to narrowly edge out the incumbent, Dominic Adewole, and Monday Osayande, with 12 and 11 votes, respectively.
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