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President Bola Tinubu has charged the media to step up its constitutional responsibility of holding the government accountable to the citizenry, just as he has congratulated the new President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Mr. Eze Anaba, and other elected officers of the professional body.
The president, in a statement entitled: ‘As journalism marches on in the service of Nigeria’, issued by his Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy, Mr. Dele Alake, described the recent Biennial Convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) as an epochal milestone in the evolution of the journalism profession in the country.
According to him, the peaceful poll by the NGE is a clear signal to the larger society that elections devoid of bitterness and unnecessary rancour can hold peacefully in Nigeria.He charged the media to step up its constitutional responsibility of holding the government accountable to the citizenry.President Tinubu also promised to collaborate with the press in the task of realising the lofty ideas of developing the country.
Tinubu congratulated the newly elected President of the Guild, Mr. Eze Anaba, who is the Editor of the Vanguard newspaper, and wished him and other newly elected officials of the guild a most fulfilling and productive tenure in office…
