Lagos, Nigeria
Two associations governing the activities of print media in Nigeria have taken the unlikely position of supporting Goodluck Jonathan's backdoor postponement of the 2015 General Elections.
Speaking at a thanksgiving service to praise God for the postponement, Mr Rufus Okupe, chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) said that the new date would extend the period of newspaper advertisements, enabling them to be able to offsets debts and pay salaries.
"Nigerian journalists are among the worst paid in the world," said the secretary of the Combined Union of Newspaper Traders and Suppliers (CUNTS), Mr Moringa Abati.
Mr Abati, who was also at the thanksgiving service, added that the proceeds from election advertisements in the next six weeks could help make sure that Nigerian journalists "won't have to collects brown envelopes for at least six months."
On her part, Mrs Ngozi Boniface, president of CUNTS, said that she empathised with Nigerians who might be frustrated with the shift from February 14 to March 28. "But it doesn't happen always," she said, "and Nigerians should allow us to chop too."
It was rumoured that social media and other campaign consultants also secretly attended the thanksgiving service to praise God for extending their contracts by six weeks.
The social media consultants and handlers of the Buhari campaign could not be reached for comment.
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