Chris Isiguzo of Thisday Newspapers has emerged as the President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists.
Isiguzo defeated the incumbent President, Waheed Odusile at the NUJ
election which took place during the union’s Triennial Delegates
Conference held in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.
At the keenly contested election where over 800 delegates converged
to elect their preferred executives that will pilot the affairs of the
union for the next three years, Isiguzo polled 346 votes to beat his
closest rival, the incumbent president Waheed Odusile with 329 votes.
According to the result as announced by the returning officer, Benson
Upah, Dele Atunbi of the Nigeria Television Authority came third with
101 votes, Abiodun Olalere 56 votes, Seiyefa Uzaka, a Director with the Bayelsa
State Ministry of Information, 30 votes while Jacob Edi scored 16 votes,
and Otunba Mike Aladenika 8 votes.
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