The Director General National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS, National Assembly, Professor Abubakar Olanrewaju Sulaiman, has congratulated Alhassan Yahaya Abdullahi over his victory at the recently concluded 8th Triennial Conference held in Imo State where he emerged the National President of the Nigeria Union of journalists (NUJ).
Professor Sulaiman gave the congratulatory message in a statement signed by his Media Adviser Mohammad Abdulkadri.
He advised Abdullahi to be magnanimous in victory by extending arms of friendship, fellowship, and comradeship to those who contested the election with him but gallantly lost the race.
The DG said, as number one journalist leading the Fourth Estate of the Realm, the onus is on him not only to lead by example but also to carefully navigate his new areas of responsibility with proven high sense of responsibility, dignity, integrity,humility and accountability while distancing himself and his administration from winner- takes- all syndrome which could sow seeds of discord among members.
While setting new agenda for Abdullahi to flush out quackery in journalism profession, he tasked him to deploy innovative leadership style for which history has beckoned and bestowed on him to embrace professionally, through the promotion of Peace Building
Mechanisms, Developmental and Solutions Journalism practices that will portray the country in positive lights in the international arena which expectedly will be a radical departure from the regimes of portraying the nation in bad light to the outside world.
He said the NUJ President should make nationalistic and patriotic ethos his watchwords in championing robust journalism etiquette among members and to mend fences where it is absolutely necessary as well as to strengthen the Democratic Institutions through balance reportage and objective editorials.
The media friendly Director General, therefore, once again congratulated the NUJ president and other elected officials and wishes them successful tours of duty in their new assignments towards pushing for collective resolves and National aspirations to end the lingering insecurity in parts of the country and in building a virile nation with the powers of their pens which is proverbially said to be mightier than the swords.
