MEDIA-INDUCED ANXIETY OVER 2023 POLLS The media needs to be less exuberant in casting sensational headlines, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Media reports on the possibility of postponing or c
The media needs to be less exuberant in casting sensational headlines, writes Media reports on the possibility of postponing or cancelling the 2023 general election earlier in the week agitated many quarters.
The reports no doubt highlight the need for the media to be more alive to its responsibility to strive at accurate reporting of events leading to the polls and leave the interpretation of the facts to the reading public. A more deliberate and sober interpretation of Yakubu’s statement would have led to no other conclusion than that he expressed concerns about the rising insecurity in the polity but made it clear that the elections would hold as scheduled.
The fact of the matter is that editors need to familiarise themselves with the relevant provisions of the 1999 Constitution as altered, the Electoral Act 2022 and INEC regulations and guidelines. If they had done that, they would have been less exuberant in the casting of the headlines that created anxiety over the sanctity of the elections.
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