Sowore Remains Our Chairman, AAC Says As It Disclaims Leonard Nzenwa As Speaker At Event
The party faulted a media report for making an expensive mistake of misleading the populace and listing an usurper of the party in the flier.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 25, 2021
The African Action Congress (AAC) has urged the public to disregard an information being circulated that Leonard Nzenwa will speak as the chairman of the party at an upcoming webinar.
The party faulted a media report for making an expensive mistake of misleading the populace and listing an usurper of the party in the flier.
Intraparty democracy, and its challenges and opportunities, is the theme of the upcoming webinar of the
Mboho Eno, programme manager in charge of advocacy and accountability at PTCIJ, said “with the recent rise of voter apathy in Nigeria, the idea of intra-party democracy has acquired an expanding consideration, in part as a way of bringing the accountability of government to citizens to debate, but more importantly as a way of assessing the stability and legitimacy of democracies within which political parties compete for power.”
The idea of internal democracy in a political party relates to the rules guiding the structures of party organisations. These rules are expected to be transparent, widely known by members, and subject to change following strictly established and recognized procedures.
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The Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), Ayisha Osori, says early education is a potent tool in tackling growing misinformation and disinformation in Nigeria.
Ms Osori, while giving opening remarks at the Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship, said building a questioning attitude in children would imbue in them a culture of seeking truth from early life.
The fellowship, now in its third year, is a brainchild of West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform,
Dubawa, under the auspices of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ).
The lawyer cum communication strategist also said inculcating fact-checking into schools’ curriculum would help children discern the rudiments of truth and spur them to verify every information they come across.