GMO hails appointment of Sarafa Yusuf & Emmanuel Ojo as Gov. Abiodun’s media aides
The recent naming of Mrs. Modele Sarafa Yusuf and Mr. Emmanuel Ojo as Special Adviser on Information and Senior Special Assistant on New Media respectively by the governor of Ogun state, Prince Dapo Abiodun, MFR has been hailed by the Gateway Media Organization, GMO.
In a congratulatory statement signed by the group’s acting secretary, ‘Dayo Oyewo in Abeokuta this evening, the group described the appointment of the duo as “fixing round peg into a round hole”.
“The appointment of the duo of Modele Sarafa and Emmanuel Ojo for the management of the government’s information mechanism and handling of new media concept of the Gov. Dapo Abiodun administration, is a giant leap for the new government, and a right step in the right direction, it passes for a square peg in a square hole “.
Oyewo also described the new Special Adviser on Information as a woman coming to her new job, as a veteran information manager. While also commending the youthfulness and wealth of experience of Emmanuel Ojo.
” Considering the background of Aunty Modele as a thoroughbred broadcaster and brand marketer of international repute, one can confidently say, Ogun state will be well marketed to the Nation, West Africa and global world at large. Or is it Ojo, who has been a long standing ally of our coordinator, Omooba Damilare Oloyede? Ojo is coming to this assignment with the deserving doggedness, influence online and techniques of the 21st century needed to shape narratives for the positive reputation of the new government “
However, GMO charged the new appointees to “consistently engage their colleagues in the media often, rather than being on the defensive always, as the ante has been upped in government’s media management with the retinue of news platforms within and outside the State. More so, it should be remembered that the country is battling with endemic plague of fake news “.
E-Signed
‘Dayo Oyewo
Acting Secretary
Gateway Media Organization, GMO.