Politician Tasks NUJ On Electoral Standard

A chieftain of the PDP in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill has charged journalists in Nigeria through their enterprise – reportage to set the pace for the evolution of an electoral system in the country where the votes of the electorates  counts.

Princewill gave the charge at the concluded 5th Triennial Delegates conference of the NUJ held in Rivers State where some national officers of NUJ and journalists from all the segments of NUJ in Rivers State had gathered to elect their new executive.

The Prince who was in faraway Paris to attend the wedding of Linus Idahosa and Stephanie Okereke was represented by his legal adviser,

Barr Soalabo West.

Speaking at the event, Barr West said: “Elections are very important in democratic organisations. Essentially, it ensures that people who lead the organisation are a choice of the led. Simple! The process therefore must be seen to be transparent. Unfortunately this is not the case in many elections conducted in Nigeria. Some of you here have courageously reported these wrong practices and the ugly effects of them on the polity. You are  about to  conduct NUJ elections, you should therefore be different. We are looking up to the NUJ to set the pace in this regard. So I implore and charge all of us here (voters, those running for office and those saddled with the responsibility of conducting your elections) to act right. To act according to the agreed rules and guidelines set down for the conduct of the elections”.

The Guest Lecturer Amaopu-Senibo Bobo-Brown a former President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and erudite scholar who spoke on the theme of the conference”.

Nwaorgu Faustinus