Osun guber: REC urges media to combat election misinformation

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has called connected media practitioners successful Osun State to enactment efforts to curb the dispersed of fake quality ahead of the August 15 governorship election.

The entreaty was made on Tuesday in Osogbo by the Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, during a programme titled “The Journalists-INEC Voter Education and Publicity Dialogue connected the 2026 Osun State Governorship Election.”

The lawsuit was organised by the European Union Support to Democratic Governance successful Nigeria programme successful collaboration with the INEC office arsenic portion of preparations for the forthcoming poll.

Addressing journalists and media stakeholders, Babalola stressed the value of the media successful safeguarding the credibility of the electoral process done close and liable reporting.

She said the media remained a captious spouse successful elector education, accusation dissemination and nationalist enlightenment, peculiarly arsenic the predetermination day draws nearer.

Babalola warned that misinformation and disinformation posed important threats to credible elections successful the integer era, noting that mendacious narratives and manipulated contented could erode nationalist assurance successful the antiauthoritarian process.

“As we determination person to this important date, the relation of the media arsenic a partne...