Civil society rejects annulment of Osun NUJ poll

An Osun State based Civil Society Organization (CSO), under the aegis of Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State ‎ (CSCEOS) has expressed condemnation on the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Waheed Odusile, over the annulment of free, fair, credible and generally acceptable recently conducted Osun Council NUJ’s election.

In the election, Comrade Abiodun Olalere of the Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC) and Comrade Boladale Bamigbola of the National Mirror Newspapers emerged Chairman and Secretary of the Union respectively.

The group also disclosed that the annulment of Osun NUJ election was replicating of the annulment of June 12, 1993 Presidential Election won by late business mogul, Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola, without any concrete justification by the then anti-democratic forces led by General Ibrahim Babangida, saying that the people of Osun State rejected the action of the Union National body under Odusile’s watch.

This was contained in an online statement issued and signed by the CSCEOS’ Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman , which a copy was made available to newsmen Wednesday.

Sulaimon insisted that the Union national body action was unacceptable to the good people of Osun State, maintaining that the annulment was done in bad faith and political.