Comrade Alhassan Yahaya has been elected as the new president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
SolaceBase reports that Alhassan, the immediate past National Deputy President of the union, defeated his closest rival, incumbent Treasurer Dele Atunbi, at the 8th Triennial Delegate Conference of NUJ, held in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
Alhassan, a former Gombe Council Chairman of NUJ scored 436 votes, Atunbi had 97 and Mohammed Garba scored 39 votes.
He was announced winner in the early hours of Thursday by the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Mike Ikeogwu.
Declaring the result, Ikeogwu said,
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“By the powers vested in me as the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, I hereby declare that Alhassan Yahya, having polled the highest number of votes, is returned as President of the NUJ for the next three years.“
Yahaya, who works with the Gombe Media Corporation, is the first NUJ President of North-East extraction.
In an acceptance speech, he pledged to serve “humbly and with the fear of God” as well as to “uphold the Constitution of the NUJ with all fairness, equity and justice”.
He succeeded Chief Chris Isuguzo from the South-East, who served out two tenures of six years.
The new Deputy National President, Abimbola Oyetunde, who is the General Manager, Radio Nigeria Bronze FM, Edo, was returned unopposed at the conference.
By her election, Oyetunde, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the union, emerged the first female deputy national president of NUJ.
Also, Mrs Ronke Afebioye Samo from Ekiti State Council was re-elected unopposed as the Vice President Zone B.
Other executive members of the union were elected unopposed.
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