The meeting commenced at 4.07pm on Wednesday 16th, October, 2019 .
However, before the commencement of the congress, the Chairman ,Comrade Adamu Yusuf ordered Mr. Isaiah Benjamin and Jacob Dickson out of the hall because, they have disqualified themselves to be part of the meeting by aligning themselves with Port-Harcourt SWAN Triennial delegates conference and in their words ” Divorced ” themselves as NUJ Affiliated SWAN members.
The Chairman, Comrade Adamu Yusuf told members that the Congress was called to affirm the directives of the NUJ National Secretariat on those who disobeyed the order and attended the Port Harcourt and Abuja SWAN Delegates conference.
The Congress was presented with the three letters from the NUJ Secretariat which were issued on the directive of the National Secretariat stopping the the SWAN factions from holding their congresses until the contentious issues were resolved.
After careful deliberations, the Congress resolved as follows:
1. That the four members of the Kaduna State Council were warned not to attend the SWAN elections slated for Abuja and Port Harcourt in the last Congress .
2. That NUJ Kaduna State Council has no alternative than to respect and obey the directives on those who disobeyed the NUJ National Secretariat directives.
3. That Isaiah Benjamin of Leadership Newspapers ; Abdulraheem Aodu of Blue Print Newspapers , Jacob Dickson of New Nigerian Newspapers and Zakari Isa of Kaduna State Media Corporation who attended the Port-Harcourt Triennial Delegates Conference stand suspended indefinitely.
4. That the Council has also accepted and recognised the suspension of Isaiah Benjamin, Abdulraheem Aodu, Jacob Dickson and Zakari Isa by Kaduna SWAN.
That a seven-man Caretaker Committee has been set up to steer the activities of Kaduna SWAN .
That the Caretaker Committee will be headed by Mr. Jacob Zango of Kaduna State Media Corporation as Supervisor and Abdulwaheed Adubi as Secretary pending when they will organize an election within 90 days.
Communiqué Drafting Committee Members:
1. Dominic Uzu….,…….. Chairman
2. Alex Uangboaje…….. Secretary
3. Andrew Mshelia……… Member
Signed :
Comrade John Femi Adi
Secretary
