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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should devise improved strategies of dealing with the challenges posed by delays in the movement of electoral materials and personnel to less-accessible voting centres so as not to disenfranchise some voters, the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) has advised.<\/p>\n

The advice was contained in a communiqu\u00e9 issued after a two-day\u00a0 workshop on, \u201c2011 General Elections: Expectations from the Media\u201d organized by the NPC in collaboration with the International Republican Institute (IRI) which was held at Hamdala Hotel, Kaduna on March 22-23, 2011.<\/p>\n

The communiqu\u00e9 signed by the NPC Executive Secretary Bayo Atoyebi, Dr. Emma Shehu (for resource persons) and Ilya Garba (for participants) also advised journalists to \u201cavoid unauthorised announcement of results of elections or false extrapolation of results to avoid confusion or violence\u201d.<\/p>\n

The workshop also noted \u201cthat the availability of different versions of the amended Electoral Act 2010 and the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in circulation is confusing, and does not provide the accurate legal framework to guide elections\u201d.<\/p>\n

The communique said: \u201cparticipants resolved that the media should be conscious of the responsibility vested on it by the constitution and do everything within its power to ensure it discharges this role effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

The workshop which drew 118 participants mostly from the print and some electronic media in the northern states appraised the role of the media in the electioneering process and their operating environment.<\/p>\n

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