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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Amupitan, has appointed former Editor of The PUNCH newspaper, Adedayo Oketola, as his Chief Press Secretary (CPS).
Oketola replaces Rotimi Oyekanmi, who served in the same capacity under the immediate past INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
Oketola had served as the News Editor and Business Editor of The PUNCH.
He was, before then, the Assistant Editor of News & Politics, Saturday PUNCH, for three and a half years.
During his tenure as Editor of The PUNCH, Oketola won the prestigious Editor of the Year prize at the Nigeria Media Merit Awards (NMMA) in December 2023 and led the newspaper to clinch the Newspaper of the Year award at the same ceremony
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