IPC Holds Stakeholders’ Roundtable On Role Of Media In Deepening Democratic Accountability
ā¦ Presents Presidential Campaign Promises & Launches Media And Election App
No fewer than 80 delegates will converge for a one-day engagement on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, to delve into the role of the media in deepening democratic governance in Nigeria, a statement signed by the Communications Officer
Component 4 (Support to Media) EUSDGN II Project at the International Press Centre (IPC), Olutoyin Ayoade, disclosed.
According to the IPC official, the roundtable will feature a lead presentation by Dr. Otive Igbuzor, founding Executive Director of African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD) on āBeyond The Rhetoric Of Campaigns: The Role Of Citizens and The Media In Ensuring Democratic Accountabilityā, which will be followed by contributions by a lead discussant and a plenary discourse.
āThe event, to be chaired by Professor Jibrin Ibrahim, Senior Fellow at Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and chairman of the editorial board of Premium Times and attended by Mr. Tunde Rahman, Media Aide to the president, as guest participant, will additionally spotlight President Bola Tinubuās campaign promises.
āThe documentation of the promises, which cuts across several development indicators, were part of the benchmarks of IPCās media monitoring on the coverage of the 2023 electoral processes across ten national print and ten online news mediums.
āRepresentatives of the media, the government, CSOs, development partners and international community will share ideas on frameworks and mechanisms ensuring democratic accountability as part of the eventā, the statement added.
The official further disclosed that the āIPC shall also launch its recently developed IOS and Media Election App through which hundreds of journalists and other media professionals, the academia, researchers, etc., would be able to download the Nigerian Media Code of Election Coverage and have easy access to the content.
āThe European Union funded resource publication has been widely endorsed and over 20,000 copies have been distributed across the Country.ā
The Executive Director of IPC, Mr. Lanre Arogundade said: āIPC have been supporting the media for more than a decade for the purpose of professionalism in the coverage of the democratic processes and elections and it is expected that this event would lead to the development of collaborative strategies for greater impactā.
āThe gathering is also important because the fulfillment of campaign promises is at the core of democratic accountabilityā, he added.
The meeting is being facilitated by the IPC’s implementing partner with the Institute for Media and Society (IMS) within component 4 (Support to media) of the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria-Phase II (EUSDGN II) project.
The specific objective of the EU funded media component is to ensure that, āThe Media, including New and Social Media, provides fair, accurate, ethical and inclusive coverage of the Electoral Processā, the statement concluded.
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