The Tide Staff Emerges NAWOJ Chairperson

The Tide Chapel of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Port Harcourt, has produced another chairperson of the association, 23 years after it served in that capacity.
The new chairperson, Susan Serekara Nwikhana, emerged with 92 votes against 46 votes of her opponent, Joy Grant-Amadi of Radio Rivers Chapel.
Announcing the results at the end of the association’s 7th Triennial Delegates Conference at the Ernest Ikoli Press Centre, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, yesterday, the vice president, NAWOJ, Zone F, Mrs Uduak Ikang Obeten-Okorn, commended the credentials committee for the display of maturity in the conduct of the elections.
Describing the elections as fair and keenly contested, Obeten-Okorn said, “the committee did their work and we finished the elections today. I want to thank the eleco committee that were articulate in their job. They displayed maturity all through the process”.
Obeten-Okorn charged the newly elected officers to embrace team spirit in order to achieve success in their administration.
Swearing in the officers, the Deputy National President, NAWOJ, Mrs Lilian Okonkwo-Ogabu, congratulated the new executive on their doggedness and urged them to work in unity for the progress of the association.
Okonkwo-Ogabu, noted that there were issues in the state NAWOJ, she challenged the executive to ensure that these issues were tackled maintaining that the association would attend a higher dimension with sincerity of purpose and team work.
In her acceptance speech, the chairperson, Susan Serekara Nwikhana, lauded all Nawojians in the state for their overwhelming support and consistency in delivering her as the chairperson.
In her words, “it is all by your efforts that I emerged as the chairperson of NAWOJ in this state. I thank you all for your support and I want to state it clearly that it will also be by your collective support that I will take NAWOJ in the state to greater heights. I also thank the credentials committee for their dedication and that has made this feat a success.”
The newly elected body of the NAWOJ, Rivers State council are Susan Serekara Nwikhana Chairperson, Daba Benibo Vice Chairperson, Doris Tams Morrison Secretary, Ngozi Anosike Assistant Secretary and Beauty David Nteugot Treasurer.
It would be recalled that The Tide Chapel member, Mrs Kadilo Toby, occupied the chairmanship position of the association between 1996-1998.

By: Lady Godknows Ogbulu