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Abiodun appoints Tunde Oladunjoye as media consultant

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has appointed the former chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, Tunde Oladunjoye, as his Senior Consultant on Media.

In a letter of appointment dated December 11, 2023, and signed by Abiodun, the governor congratulated Oladunjoye, who is also the Publicity Secretary of the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on the appointment.

“Please, accept my hearty congratulations on this well deserved appointment and best wishes for a successful tenure of office,” he stated.

Oladunjoye, according to a statement made available to The Star on Monday, December 18, was the Assistant Publicity Secretary of the Directorate of Strategic Communications of the APC-Presidential Campaign Council for President Bola Tinubu and was also a member of the Publicity Committee of the APC presidential primary.

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Oladunjoye, for several years, covered the biggest film festival in the world, the Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France.

He also covered the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, the Nigeria’s Eminent Persons Agricultural Summit hosted in Geneva 2013 by former President Goodluck Jonathan and the World Hunger Summit hosted by UK in 2013.

He was part of the presidential delegation to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in 2013.

He was appointed by the Federal Government into the Strategic Media Communication Committee of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) in 2012 and later as Media Adviser to Nigeria’s Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, between 2012 and 2014, before taking up an appointment as National Media Consultant to World Bank/FGN under FADAMA III Additional Financing Project between 2016 and 2018.

Oladunjoye served as Board Member, Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation, Member, Governing Council of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Chairman Ogun State Television (OGTV), Member, Governing Council, Federal Polytechnic, Ukanna, Akwa Ibom State, and Member Ogun State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board. He was named United Nations Youth Ambassador for World Peace in 2008.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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