The executive director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani, weekend tasked journalists to ensure free and fair elections in 2023.
Rafsanjani gave the task in Ibadan at a one-day training for journalists tagged: “Prioritising Anti-Corruption and Accountability issues during the upcoming 2023 elections.”
Represented by CISLAC director of Legal, Barrister Adesina Oke, Rafsanjani stated that journalists in Nigeria have a critical role to play in ensuring free and fair polls during the 2023 general elections.
The CISLAC executive director said there is the need for Nigerian journalists to play a critical role to ensure that the elections are free, fair and generally acceptable by giving priority to reportage on corruption and accountability in the coming general elections.
He pointed out that going by their reportage, it is glaring that journalists can make or mar as the public often formed their opinion or based their decisions on what they read or hear from the newspapers and electronics media.
While charging journalists on the need to continue beaming searchlight on the executive, the legislative and judiciary arms of government, added that should reportage be false, there is no doubt that such can destroy the election.
