The Adamawa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists has elected a new State Executive Council to handle its affairs for the next three years.
During the state’s triennial delegates conference on Saturday, Comrade Salihu Abubakar of the Adamawa State Television, Yola, emerged as the state Chairman unopposed, while Alhaji Umar Dankano of the Peoples Daily newspaper was also elected state Vice Chairman of the council unopposed.
Others that made the leadership list were Zare Baba of the Adamawa Press Limited, Alhaji Shekarau Yerima of Gotel Radio, Yola and Madam Tina Valdo of the Adamawa Television Yola, who were returned unopposed as Secretary, Financial Secretary and Auditor respectively.
Mary Adamu of the Nigeria Television Authority, Yola polled 83 votes to emerged as the council’s Treasurer, defeating her two contenders, Mallam Isah Tukur of Adamawa Broadcasting Cooperation, Yola, who scored 67 votes, and Anthony Taru of state Ministry of Information, who got 12 votes.
Muhammad Lawal Paris of the state Ministry of Information clinched the office of Assistant Secretary by polling 86 votes to defeat his only contender, Emmanuel Njaprim of the Taraba Sunrise newspapers, who scored 74 votes as well.
Addressing the new officials and members of the union at the NUJ Press centre in Yola on Saturday, both the Zonal Vice President in charge of Zone E, Hajiya Aishatu Ibrahim Kwaya, and the Zonal Secretary, Zone E, Alhaji Suleiman Ibrahim Abubakar, charged members to observe the professional code of ethics and use the union’s constitution as guiding principles in handling union matters, noting that it will go a long way in addressing issues that may crop up simultaneously.
They also advised the new executives to remember they are under oath of offices, which will subject them to be accountable for their actions not only before the congress members, but Almighty God.
Similarly, the Adamawa State Government has called on the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists to rise against members casualization by some media owners who are out to exploit them.
The state Commissioner of Information, Comrade Ahmad Sajoh, made the call at the inauguration of the newly elected state executive of the union in Yola.
Sajoh said that some practicing journalists were not been paid by their employers who instead issued them ID cards expecting to them to use it to intimidate and exploit innocent citizens for their survival.
He urged the union to save the noble profession from derailing from its constitutional role of being the watch dog of the society.
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