A political group under the aegis of Ododo Support Organisation OSO has solicited the support of practising Journalists in the state to help disseminate accurate reportage in the ongoing electioneering process for the November 11 governorship election in kogi state.t
The Director General of the group, Engr.Suleiman Adehira, made the appeal when its Executive Officers paid advocacy visit to the Chairman of the Council of NUJ comrade Adeiza Momohjimoh in his office on Friday in Lokoja.
The DG noted that the executive members were in his office to tell him on their activities and to create synergy with journalists in the state for the electoral victory of the governorship candidate of APC .
Engineer Adehira who was represented by the Director, Door to Door campaign of the group, disclosed that the group comprised of 18 directorates with 48 directors among others, saddled with different responsibilities all towards ensuring the electoral victory of Ododo.
He, therefore, solicited the cooperation of members of the Union for effective coverage of its activities and for the realization of the aims and objectives of the group.
Chairman of the Kogi State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Adeiza Momojimoh in a remark, said , NUJ is strongly in defence of practicing Journalists in the state, affirming that they have no Preferred candidate in reporting the upcoming governorship election
The NUJ Boss urged politicians in the state to stop casting aspersion on members of the union on reportage of political activities in the state
MomohJimoh said that politicians accusing journalists in the state of reports they believed were not favourable to them had no moral justification for their damaging remarks on members of the fourth estate of the realm.
According to the chairman, journalists in the state have no preferred candidates in their reportage of political activities in the state as being erroneously expressed in some quarters in the state.
He said that all the candidates in the November 11, governorship election, irrespective of their political party, are welcome at the press centre, to tell members of the press about their manifesto for adequate and objective reporting.
He, however, advised politicians yet to visit the centre to come forward, assuring them that they would receive equal and adequate publicity.
According to the state NUJ chairman, there is nothing journalists can do unless such politicians make themselves available to them, telling them of their promises to the electorate for onward dissemination to the public.
MomohJimoh also advised politicians to dwell on issue-based campaign and not ethnicity inclined to ensure a peaceful election , come November 11.
He commended the group for aligning itself with the concept of a peaceful and issue-based campaign and urged its members to continue and enhance such tempo of political activity.
The NUJ chairman , who promised that journalists would synergise with the group to achieve its aims and objectives, reminded politicians that ethnic colouration, especially on political activities, was alien to kogites.
Earlier, the Director General of the group, Engr.Suleiman Adehira, said the executive members of the group were in chairman’s office to tell him on their activities and to create synergy with journalists in the state for the electoral victory of the governorship candidate of APC .
