OPINION BY TUNDE AKANNI: Between Hope ’93 and Renewed Hope ’23 | TheCable
Nigeria’s freest election won in 1993 by the inimitable philanthropist and pan-Africanist turned politician, Bashorun MKO Abiola.
No one knew Bello as a politician in 1993. Asiwaju Tinubu had already become a key player in the nation’s polity, indeed in the same political camp as the winner of the June 12, 1993, election. If anyone had been tempted to dismiss Bello’s aspiration, that temptation was promptly diminished by his choice of the director-general of the campaign in the person of Hafsat Abiola-Costello, the daughter of Bashorun Abiola.
The media space like others has since received its fair share of technological disruption with or without the readiness of different societies in different parts of the world. But no one can stop the speeding train of technological transformation, just that human wisdom manifest in restraint and caution must be activated to hold sway always, now that information production, dissemination, and consumption have all been radicalised altogether.
As opposed to 1993, this year 2023 presents a situation of massively liberalised media space with charlatans perhaps being more visible than more credible sources. Information flow is no longer an issue but the quality of the information circulating.
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