The International Press Centre (IPC) has charged the media and civil society organizations (CSOs) with holding President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to his campaign promises. Mr Lanre Arongudade, Executive Director of the IPC, delivered the charge on Wednesday in Abuja at the stakeholders’ round table on accountability, which included the public presentation of Tinubu’s independently compiled campaign promises and the launch of an iOS/web app of media code for election.
The purpose of the event was to educate the media and civil society about their oversight roles as an institution with the constitutional responsibility to monitor governance and hold the government accountable to the people.
During the campaigns, we documented the campaign promises of all the presidential candidates. Normally it is our tradition to publish that of the president so that we can look at these promises in our respective way.
Maybe in the area of health, sports, education, whichever appeals to us we can begin to look at how they are implemented.
These days we talk about solution-driven journalism but you can’t have solutions when you don’t pick promises, follow them, and ensure that they are actually implemented and also ask questions if there are challenges of implementation or there are changes to that plan, Arogundade said.
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