APC NewsOnline Gets New CEO As Ohikere Defects To ADC

A erstwhile Kogi State Commissioner for Information and salient media strategist, Dr. Tom Ohikere, has stepped down arsenic the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of APC NewsOnline, an online media level affiliated with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

This improvement comes soon aft Ohikere formally defected to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), a determination helium described arsenic driven by “strong ideological conviction.”

In a connection issued to journalists yesterday successful Abuja, Ohikere said his resignation and defection were necessitated by a increasing divergence betwixt his governmental and economical philosophies and the existent argumentation absorption of the APC-led government.

“After aggravated reflection and conscientious scrutiny, I americium satisfied to manus implicit the level to Ritchie Otonoku, a staunch APC chieftain and connection entrepreneur,” Ohikere stated.

He added that portion helium inactive believes successful APC NewsOnline’s imaginable arsenic a strategical media vehicle, his ideological realignment nary longer allows him to proceed arsenic its look oregon custodian.

Ohikere officially handed implicit the platform’s enactment and absorption to Mr. Ritchie Otonoku, describing him arsenic the “most suitable candidate” aft cautiously reviewing takeover bids.

“A seasoned connection strategist, politician, and entrepreneur, I ardently judge helium possesses the ideological rigour, administrative capacity, and governmental superior to seamlessly execute the arduous requirements of this relation without deviating from its founding principles,” helium said.

He besides appealed to the platform’s stakeholders and readers to cooperate with and enactment the caller leadership, assuring them that the level would proceed to present worth arsenic it has nether his stewardship.

Dr. Ohikere, known for his beardown media beingness and loyalty to the APC, was a erstwhile Director of Support Groups North for the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) and a cardinal state of the precocious Prince Abubakar Audu and Hon. James Faleke.

Analysts spot his defection to the ADC arsenic a notable displacement successful Nigeria’s governmental realignment up of the adjacent predetermination cycle, particularly fixed his past of engagement successful grassroots mobilisation and strategical communication.

While helium noted that his reasons for leaving the APC stay “personal,” Ohikere emphasised that his determination was successful the champion involvement of governmental integrity and ideological consistency.

“Since I cannot instrumentality the marque sanction with maine to my caller governmental family, the work is to guarantee that APC NewsOnline remains successful the hands of a bona fide subordinate of the APC.”