PRESS STATEMENT

As part of the efforts aimed at strengthening his media team, the Ondo State governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has approved the following appointments:

Ojo Oyewamide----Senior Special Assistant
(Media and Publicity)

Dapo Aruwajoye ---Senior Special Assistant (Broadcast Communications).

The appointments are with immediate effect.

Both appointees are graduates of English Studies of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Oyewamide started his career as a Journalist with the then Comet Newspaper. He also had a brief stint with National Mirror before joining Daily Independent Newspaper as the Ondo State Correspondent before his appointment. He is the current chairman of the Correspondents Chapel, State Council of the NUJ.

Aruwajoye, who holds a Masters Degree in Media and Globalisation from the Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom, was Press Secretary (Electronics) to Governor Akeredolu. He had worked in Channels Television and Continental TV before joining the governor's media team.

Governor Akeredolu congratulates the new appointees and charges them to discharge their duties diligently.

Segun Ajiboye
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor