Newly elected Council members pledge support for President’s vision
By Felicia Nwosu
The two newly elected Council members of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, NIMN have reiterated their pledge to support the vision and mandate of the Institute’s President, Dr. Idoreyen Enang, to accelerate the pace of growth of the Institute.
Mr. Michael Ikupolati, and Mrs. Ebisan Onyema, were recently elected to fill two Council seats in the positions of the First Vice – President and Second Vice-President respectively.
Ikupolati while speaking with MARKETING EDGE excitedly reaffirmed his support to be at the forefront in actualising the vision of the great Institute as envisaged by the President.
“I am in it now so I will join hands with the president to ensure that the vision that he puts on the table is achieved. He has put a lot of things on the table, which I personally believe are the things that will move the institute to the next level.I will be joining hands with him to ensure that all those wonderful programmes that he has highlighted will be achieved with all the resources that we have. Now we are going to form a formidable team and not a group that will ensure that we put everything in place to move the institute forward.”
The First vice-president also revealed that he is in total support to advance every agenda that will advance the mission of the Marketing umpire, especially in the area of career development which formed part of the cardinal points and top agenda of Dr. Enang as the president of the Institute.
“Having career development as the top agenda is a beautiful concept. Even before I won the election, I have taken steps to ensure that we move in that direction. What I have done so far is to identify all the universities in Nigeria that have marketing as part of their courses, and I was able to identify 56 of them. I am currently going around to get in touch with heads of department of these institutions so that we can all come together to make sure that we improve that particular aspect.”
He said their leadership train is poised to ensure that members are better informed and are immersed with adequate information of the Marketing professional through the introduction of a rich and robust journal publication which will be coming out soon.
“Again, one other thing that will make them interested in academia is the platform of the Institute’s journal. I volunteered during the President’s speech to reactivate it. As it is, we have already called for articles for the journal and hopefully, we could use the first one before the year runs out while we will be having about two or more editions before next year ends.”
Also, Mrs. Ebisan Onyema, who was elected as the Second Vice-President, expressed her gratitude to those who believed in her to be elevated with such a position in a high profiled Institute as NIMN. She commended the undisputable synergy among the Council’s members while promising to contribute her own quota to the growth and development of the body.
“I must say they are doing a good job, and I am coming in as a woman, I will also make sure that I give it my best. I like bringing in my best in everything I do as a professional. As we work as a team. I have to look at exactly where they are right now, to put a good touch on everything they are doing.”
To achieve the set goals, the Second Vice-President reiterated that they must work together in strategic, thoughtful, and engaging ways for collective Impact.
“I believe as a team, we will be able to achieve all that, because together, we can do better. At the end of the day, my vision for the Institute is to take it to a greater height which everybody is working towards to achieve. Coming in as a woman, I will look at all the missing dots and ensure we resurrect them to take the great Institute to its place of pride.” She said.
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