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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the media volition play a strategical relation successful the occurrence of the Nov. 8 Anambra predetermination done dissemination of factual accusation to the public.
Mr Wilfred Ifogah, the Deputy Director of Publicity, INEC, said this connected Wednesday successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) successful Awka.
Ifogah noted that media practitioners are the reflector of the society, arsenic they bespeak the corporate conscience of members of the public.
“The committee appreciates and values the services of the media successful ensuring close and unbiased accusation to the nationalist by enabling the radical to person factual accusation connected the commission’s electoral expectations.
“We bash not privation immoderate smearing of the electoral integrity done fake quality and misinformation, mendacious stories, manipulated videos, and unverified claims that tin make unnecessary hostility and erode nationalist trust,” helium said.
The manager of publicity said that the INEC squad for the authorities governorship predetermination scheduled for Nov. 8 are already in the authorities for a week-long mentation to guarantee a hitch-free predetermination process.
He said that the committee had assembled media practitioners successful the authorities for a concern and a shared intent of strengthening the nation’s ideology done credible accusation and liable communication.
He said that INEC besides engaged the media up of the governorship predetermination to reiterate the commission’s level of readiness successful applicable presumption for a flawless governorship predetermination successful the state.
Ifogah urged the media executives, reporters, producers, and different on-the-air personalities to spouse with INEC successful giving prime elector acquisition done their reportage to the public.
He emphasised that the commission’s media engagement forum was to grow the concern to forestall misinformation and summation cognition of elector acquisition amongst the people.
According to him, the media, arsenic the watchdog of the society, needs to spouse with INEC to rebuild nationalist spot successful the commission’s electoral processes.
He disclosed that non-sensitive materials for the projected predetermination had been delivered and that the sensitive materials would beryllium delivered astatine the due clip nether choky information to the state.
Ifogah said that successful enactment with the commission’s committedness to credible and inclusive elections, it had been implementing a broad program of activities covering logistics, technology, training, stakeholder engagement, and information coordination.
“The commission is successful Anambra for a week-long readiness appraisal sojourn which volition diagnostic meetings with cardinal stakeholders, including the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee connected Election Security (ICCES), transport unions, and a mock accreditation workout that volition beryllium held connected Saturday, Nov. 2.
“INEC is acceptable and afloat committed to conducting a free, fair, and credible predetermination successful Anambra state.
“The Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from the precocious conducted Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) workout successful Anambra are acceptable for postulation from Wednesday, Oct. 22, to Sunday, Oct. 26.
“Anambra residents who registered successful the past workout are encouraged to sojourn their wards wherever they registered to cod their PVCs; determination is nary postulation by proxy,” helium said.
Ifogah charged the media practitioners to spouse with INEC with continuous reportage for the registrants to sojourn their centres and prime up their PVCs successful bid to actively enactment successful the election.
He besides urged the media to collaborate with INEC to halt the dispersed of immoderate harmful contented that mightiness airs a menace to the upcoming predetermination successful the authorities and smear the integrity of the electoral umpire.
The INEC lawman manager enjoined residents to travel retired en masse to enactment successful the election, noting that accreditation and voting commencement by 8:30a.m. and extremity by 2:30p.m. oregon until the past idiosyncratic successful the queue has voted. (NAN) (
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