Politicians, Experts Set to Seek Strategies to Track Campaign Promises as NPO Reports Holds Dialogue

All is set for the one-day dialogue of the NPO Reports where politicians, leaders in the civil society organisations are expected to deliberate on the best strategies to track campaign promises made ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Speakers at the event with the theme: 2023 and Beyond: Tracking Campaign Promises for Good Governance are expected to examine campaigns promises being made against the backgrounds of previous promises in the past and how politicians kept faith or otherwise with their promises.
The event, according to Semiu Okanlawon, Publisher of the NPO Reports, is aimed at marking the 12th anniversary of the birth of the online publication and deepen debates on fixing the Nigerian politics.
Already confirmed to speak at the event which holds today at the Nigerian National Merit Awards (Merit House, Abuja) are former Governor of Ekiti, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, former Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Director, MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Kole Shetima, Executive Director, Centre for Democracy and Development, Mrs. Idaya Hassan, Director General, The Electoral Institute, Dr. Saad Idris.
Other organisations expected to attend the event include YIAGA Africa, Connected Development, International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting and others, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Guild of Corporate Online Publishers and the Nigerian Union of Journalists.
Billed to deliver a keynote address is a retired professor of Sociology at the University of Lagos and former National Commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Lai Olurode.
Okanlawon said, “Today’s event is one in the series of strategic engagements by the NPO Reports to join hands to fix the Nigerian politics. Perhaps, we can conclude that governance fraud starts from when politicians make promises they know ab initio, they don’t have the wherewithal to fulfil but only aimed at getting them to part with their mandates. Once the mandate is secured, no one revisits the promises that were considered by the voters to make their choices. This has to stop and we all have responsibilities to do this.”