The announcement of social crusader, journalist and publisher
of Premium Times, Mr. Dapo Olorunyomi, as one of the three
winners of this year’s International Press Freedom award of the
prestigious Committee for the Protection of Journalists is a
befitting reward for his untiring service to Nigeria he loves with
uncompromising passion and to people-centred journalism.
All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, stated this on Sunday in Lagos in a statement on
Olorunyomi’s award.
Asiwaju Tinubu congratulated the Premium Times publisher for
the award, thanking him for making Nigeria proud once again.
In the statement signed by his Media Aide, Tunde Rahman, the
former Lagos governor also commended Olorunyomi for
deploying the constitutional obligations of the Press, as the
Fourth Estate of the Realm, to hold the leadership accountable
to the people.
He said: “The announcement of social crusader, journalist and
publisher of Premium Times, Mr. Dapo Olorunyomi, as one of
the three winners of this year’s International Press Freedom
award of the prestigious Committee for the Protection of
Journalists is a befitting reward for his untiring service to the
country he loves with uncompromising passion and to people-
centred journalism.
“Committed to the development of the Nigerian people through
their progressive liberation from the challenges of corruption,
ignorance and resources mismanagement, Olorunyomi deploys
the constitutional obligations of the Press, as the Fourth Estate
of the Realm, to hold the leadership accountable to the people.
By placing premium on the welfare of the citizenry as the
purpose of governance, Premium Times, Olorunyomi’s stable,
conscientises the people and their leaders on the primacy of the
social contract and the transparent delivery of democratic
dividends.
“It is significant that Premium Times has harnessed the power
of technology in executing its mission by using the website to
make facts and opinions available to a global audience that
shares the vision of Nigeria as a superpower struggling to
manifest her natural potentials.
“Yet, this much-deserved award can only be a challenge to
Olorunyomi to strive harder in his patriotic endeavour to bring
power to the people by encouraging the responsible use of
freedoms to make Nigeria a country of great pride and promise.
I salute Dapo Olorunyomi and wish him many more awards as
he devotes his life to the service of humanity.”
