The International Press Centre (IPC) has urged the media and civil society organizations (CSOs) to ensure that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is held responsible for fulfilling his campaign pledges.
Mr Lanre Arongudade, the Executive Director of IPC, made this call on Wednesday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ roundtable discussion on accountability.
The event included the presentation of an independent compilation of Tinubu’s campaign promises and the launch of an iOS/web app containing media guidelines for elections.
Arogundade said: “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.”
