Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has announced the appointment of Lekan Adeniran as his new Chief Press Secretary (CPS). This announcement comes as part of his second term in office.
Adeniran will be taking over from Kunle Somorin, who served as the Chief Press Secretary during the governor’s first term.
But on Tuesday, the governor, in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Tokunbo Talabi, announced the new CPS.
Mr Talabi in the statement said, “the appointment takes immediate effect.”
Talabi described Adeniran as a graduate of Mass Communication with “over three decades experience as a journalist.”
The statement said the appointee started his journalism career at The Guardian in 1992, where he covered the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Lagos State House of Assembly and Governor’s Office, Alausa, Ikeja.
“He left The Guardian in 2001 to join the newly established Daily Independent. The new CPS also worked with the Compass, Next and National Mirror newspapers.
“Before the appointment, he was the editor of WesternPost, an online newspaper publication,” the statement read in part.
