By Mohammed Suleiman Tola
Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Broom Platform, a political outfit, on Tuesday called for a “progressive partnership’’ with media organisations for the development of the country.
Dr Tom Ohikere, the National Coordinator of the group, made the call during a visit to the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Bayo Onanuga, in Abuja.
Ohikere, who served as a commissioner for information in Kogi under two administrations, appealed to the conscience of all media practitioners to support the present administration with a sense of patriotism to get the country out of the woods.
He said: “Without your (media) support, citizens and rest of the world will not appreciate the good things the government is doing.
“So, people need to know, understand and support the government to rejig the country and deliver more dividends of democracy.’’
The coordinator described the platform as a media inclined specialised forum of over 60 veteran journalists, writers and media administrators.
He explained that the group would canvass for the realisation of party ideals, leadership qualities and virtues as well as character, competence and capacity of our leaders.
On policy environment, he urged the media to support and promote challenges of national development, the philosophy behind project continuity and completion of abandoned projects of successive administrations.
Similarly, Ohikere appealed to journalists to publicise the achievements, milestones and legacy projects recorded by the Buhari administration.
Besides, he challenged the media to set and promote nationalistic development agenda for the country beyond 2019 the general elections.
On their part, Ohikere announced that the group was contributing via off and online activities (traditional and social/new media platforms), but needed more support.
Consequently, he said the group would embark on a nationwide media “evidence of change’’ tour, beginning from Nov. 5, 2018, through Jan. 25, 2019.
The coordinator emphasised that the tour would cover all the APC controlled and non-controlled states of the federation and the FCT.
Responding, Onanuga noted that the activity was in the best interest of the Federal Government and the ruling party.
The managing director pledged the support of the agency toward national unity, peace, progress and development. (NAN)
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