The Chairman, Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State and Chairmanship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Princess Surah Animashaun, has urged electorates to come out en-masse for Saturday’s Local Government (LG) elections across the state.
Princess Animashaun made the appeal at the round-off ‘door-to-door LG campaign, at the Epe Local Government Area Council of the state.
She also urged residents to vote massively for All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship, deputy chairmanship and councillorship candidates across the 8 political wards in Epe Local Government Council.
The chairman lauded residents for the massive turn out for the LG campaign tour throughout the eight wards of the council areas, and urged them “to repeat the feat for all APC candidates in Saturday’s polls”.
“We thank you for the turnout and massive campaign throughout the eight wards of the council, we urge you to repeat the same feat at the Saturday’s LG polls.
“We appeal to you to cast massive votes for APC chairmanship, deputy chairmanship and other councilorship candidates across the 8 political wards in Epe for them to be victorious, and this can only be achieved with your support and robust cooperation.
“We promise, as a government, to transform your support to renumeration of development and welfare of our people,” Princess Animashaun said.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
