In a Press Statement on Wednesday, the chairman of NUJ Enugu state council Comrade Rex Arum, and Secretary Mrs Amaka Agbo, said the duo of Emeka Anyalebechi, Chinedu Adonu, are not updated members of the union and does not have the right to vote or be voted for and at such does not possess the rights to meddle into matters that concerns the union, the statement also advised Anyalebechi to concentrate his energy on clearing his name with the allegations of embezzlement leveled against him by his colleagues over the funds contributed for Christmas/New Year festivities at Radio Nigeria.

PRESS STATEMENT

The attention of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Enugu State Council has been drawn to a purported press statement allegedly issued and circulated on Jan. 7, 2020 by one Emeka Anyalebechi, a staff of Radio Nigeria, Coal City FM, Enugu and one Chinedu Adonu, a freelance reporter with The Vanguard Newspapers in Enugu who claimed to be caretaker chairman and secretary respectively of the state council.

Ordinarily, the council would have refused to dignify the impostors, their ‘co-travelers’ and paymasters with a response but for members of the public who could easily fall prey to their mischief.

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It is pertinent to note that the NUJ Enugu State Council has validly constituted executive led by Comrade Rex Arum as chairman and recognised by the national leadership of the union.
The leadership of the union in the state operates from the NUJ secretariat at Rangers Ave., Independence Layout, Enugu and has the full backing of members of the union in the state and beyond.

We wish to also state that the impostors are not members of the union in good and regular standing and do not have the locus to lay claim to any leadership position in the union.

While Emeka Anyalebechi who but for his questionable character and anti-union activities may continue to enjoy his membership of the union, the same cannot be said of Chinedu Adonu.
As a freelance reporter with no regular employment, Chinedu Adonu can only qualify as an associate member and by the NUJ Constitution, does not have a voice or voting rights in the union; He is not qualified to vote and or be voted for in an NUJ election.
As Chinedu Adonu does not qualify to hold any position even at the chapel level, one, then, wonders why his ill-conceived claim.

Emeka Anyalebechi, Chinedu Adonu and their sponsors should, perhaps, be reminded that the state council of the union has since moved on from those crises-ridden years and is now a one big and happy family. Never again would we allow the locusts to feast on the council and on our common patrimony. Once ordinarily would have expected Anyalebechi to have spent more energy in clearing his name on what he allegedly did with funds contributed by his colleagues at Radio Nigeria for the Christmas/New Year festivities but true to his colours instead of destroying his already bartered image for a paltry N15000.00.

It will be in the best interest of Anyalebechi and his co-travelers to give peace a chance or face the consequences of their inglorious actions.

Finally, members of the NUJ in the state, hereby, reiterate their full support and confidence in the ability of the national president, Chief Chris Isiguzo to restore the lost glory of the union.

Rex Arum
NUJ Chairman

Amaka Agbo
NUJ Secretary

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