The National Peace Committee (NPC) has tasked political parties and candidates to pay more attention and address fake news as well as inciting messages on social media emanating from their stables ahead of the 2023 general election.
Head of the secretariat of NPC, Rev Father Atta Barkindo, stated this during a workshop for political parties, civil society organisations, the media and other stakeholders titled, “The role and impact of digital technologies in facilitating peaceful elections in Nigeria.”
The two-day training programme in Abuja was organised by the National Peace Committee (NPC) in collaboration with the Kofi Annan Foundation and the Kukah Centre.
Barkindo said they decided to embark on the workshop because they discovered the need to hold candidates and political parties to account on the issue of social media and fake news as part of the peace accord process.
“And so the reason why we assembled particularly the executives of the political parties is to…
