NUJ CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR IKPEAZU’S CHIEF PRESS SECRETARY
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Abia State Council of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called on Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to as matter of urgency remove his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Enyinnaya Apollos over his derogatory and provocative statements made against the State Council Leadership and its members.
The decision of the State Council to petition Mr Appolos before the State governor was reached at its February Congress where a formal complaint against Mr Appolos was made after the leadership of the State Council had visited him for official consultation in his office.
The position of the State Council was contained in a petition made to the State governor, and made available to the Independent dated 16th February,2017 and signed by the State Council Chairman, Comrade john Emejor, Secretary, Comrade Uche Arungwa and the leadership of Six Chapels under the State Council.
The State Council had in the strong worded petition observed that “Since his appointment as CPS, Mr Appolos has been courting enmity in the media for your administration through his unguarded utterances, poor human relations, impudence and unbridled arrogance which is unbecoming of his office as the chief image maker of a governor.
According the State Council of NUJ, its provocation against Governor Ikpeazu’s spokes man was heightened following un complimentary remarks made by Mr Appolos against its members when the leadership of the State Council visited him
The State NUJ further recalled an already existing feud between the governor’s CPS and the Correspondents Chapel, a critical arm of the NUJ had “Since October 2016 kept away from the government house following repeated antagonism against them by the CPS”
According to the petition, the governor’s image maker demonstrated his ignorance when he said that NUJ is not a remarked parastatal of government, “Hence this administration owes no obligation whatsoever to the Council and its members.
“ the CPS also demonstrated his immaturity and impudence when he derisively said that Abia NUJ is of no relevance to your administration and “should stop pestering” you.
“Worst still, he boasted before our leadership that your administration has rented and equipped an office apartment in Aba for an amorphous group of reporters, which is unknown to NUJ both at the State and National Levels. And this goes to buttress his assertion that Aba and not Umuahia is all that matters to your administration .
