Oyo NUJ sets up Elders Committee to resolve NAWOJ crisis

By Ogundele Olanrewaju

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Sunday sets up a three-man Committee to resolve the lingering crisis in the State chapter of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ).

The NUJ said, ‘two wrongs can never make a right” and there is the need “to immediately put the outcome of the recent leadership tussle of NAWOJ behind us as one big family.”

To this end, after wide consultations, the Chairman, Comrade Ademola Babalola has put in place three veteran leaders of NUJ to midwife a truce.

They are the State Chairman, League of Veteran Journalists, Pa Banji Ogundele; Alhaji Soladoye Adewole (a two-term NUJ Chairman and Mrs Bisi Yomi-Layinka, also a former Chairperson of Oyo NAWOJ.

The Committee of these eminent elders was given a week to bring the warring factions together for the peace, progress and unity of the Union.

The inaugural meeting of the Committee with the NUJ executive has been slated for 11am on Monday at the Press Centre Iyaganku Ibadan.