It was victory galore,as Festus Alenkhe of the Edo State Broadcasting Service, EBS,was on Friday declared winner of the election of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
Alenkhe scored 228 votes out of the total 379 votes cast to defeat Comrade Titus Akhigbe of the Daily Times Newspapers to emerge the 17th Chairman of the Edo State Council.
Speaking at the swearing in ceremony at the NUJ Center, he thanked those who voted for him, and pledgedto be the chairman of every journilsts in Edo State.
“I want to thank everyone who voted for me, those 228 persons that voted for me, I want to state that I have no enemy to fight,it is a contest, it is given or give out.I am not the chairman of a section, I have a manifesto, I want to state that the manifesto has begun to run. I am in a hasty to develop Edo NUJ.”he said.
Also, Comrade Andy Egbon of the Nigerian Observer emerged the Secretary of the Council beating the two contestants.
