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Nigeria’s future’s be determined by 2023 polls – USAID, others

by Alade Abayomi Adeleke
August 17, 2023
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The United States Agency for International Development, alongside Food Basket Foundation International, Palladium and other development partners have said that the future of Nigeria as a united country will be dependent on how successful the 2023 general elections turn out.

The agencies said this at a press conference on Friday, which held at Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

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The conference, which was tagged: ‘Safeguarding Digital Civic Space for Electoral Integrity’, was jointly addressed by the agencies.

During her speech, the Chief Executive Officer of FBFI, Funmi Akinyele, said the digital civic space is expected to play a significant role in combating voter misinformation and disinformation, while improving access to accurate civic information inclusively.

She said, “The overarching goal of this project is to protect online civic space by combating voter misinformation and disinformation while improving access to accurate civic information inclusively.

“With the advent of citizen journalism, information circulates quickly. Unfortunately, some individuals, either by omission or commission have distorted information, leading to misinformation, disinformation and malformation.

“The misuse and repression of both offline and digital civic spaces, no doubt, have contributed to the perceptions, mostly negative, of members of the international community about Nigeria.

“The Nigerian digital civic space, like any other nation in the globe, is intended to facilitate citizens’ abilities to exercise their rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and expression guaranteed by the constitution.

“This includes giving and receiving knowledge, beneficial encounters for raising awareness and educating one another, among other things. In the information age, technology offers a number of avenues for improved global connectedness. Nigeria’s 222-day Twitter ban in 2020 highlighted the threat to constitutional liberties and the possibility of repression in the digital civic sphere.

“This highlighted the autocratic tendencies of some government figures who preferred to use their authority to stifle the public’s right to free speech.”

Akinyele, then, urged the government and citizens alike, that the integrity of the elections must not be compromised for the betterment of Nigerians and the legacy of the country.

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