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The Nigerian Guild of Editors is collaborating with the Living Legends Foundation to float “The Next President TV Reality Show”
THE Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, and Living Legends Foundation, LLF, have developed a new electioneering campaign model entitled “The Next President TV Reality Show”, also known as “Presidential TV Reality Show”. The Reality Show is an electoral initiative aimed at sensitising and re-orientating the mindset of Nigerians towards embracing the right attitude towards politics and elections to reduce political tension and minimise political violence before, during and after elections. The initiative is also designed to play a leading role in electioneering campaign as a formidable political platform.
It is intended to provide a unified campaign platform for political parties, politicians and presidential aspirants to address Nigerians on their vision and programmes for Nigeria and the roadmap to realising them. The Reality Show will help in the efforts to entrench internationally acceptable and acclaimed democratic culture, norms and values. The NGE and Living Legend Foundations are doing this as a concerted effort to add value to the political and electoral system, and to advance the country’s democratic experiment, norms and culture to the next level. It is expected to be very instrumental in determining the course of political leadership in Nigeria, particularly, in ensuring credible elections and the emergence of credible leadership and good governance.
A statement signed by Femi Adesina, president of NGE and Frank Okechukwu, executive director, Living Legend Foundation said the idea of TV Reality Show has a strategic underpinning aimed at exploring the current high popularity rating and patronage of Reality Shows all over the world, which cuts-across all gender and age to drive home the message for the need for the various stakeholders to act in a civilised and democratic manner to bequeath our nation a credible election. “It is an established fact that Reality Show will enhance a better perception of issues by the electorate, and also will enhance publicity and enlightenment drive that will have far-reaching impact on the psyche of the electorate and the voting public,” it said.
The Reality Show will feature interesting side-attractions such as Drama Piece, Comedy and Music Interlude/Stage Performance; all of which will be potent purveyors of the message the initiatives are designed to project in the consciousness of the Nigerian people and the voting public. The drama sketch will cover five major sectors of our national life identified to be very critical to the emergence of credible elections. The drama will mirror these key sectors to show how its action or inaction can impact positively or negatively on elections.
The issues the initiative is expected to address include re-orientating the masses on the strategic and collective importance on the involvement and participation of every eligible Nigerian in the electoral process as our civic responsibility as the collateral consequences of our non-participation is always and usually disastrous and colossal; sensitizing the mindset and value system of the voting public (the electorate) to appreciate the value and sacredness of their votes in facilitating the emergence and enthronement of credible leadership that can usher in the much expected good governance and democratic dividends, reversing the voter’s apathy and the inclination to electoral brigandage and violence with its negative consequences on our political psyche.
— Oct. 27, 2014 @ 01:00 GMT
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