The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), MacArthur Foundation and Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA) has at a workshop yesterday trained over 50 radio ambassadors for a more effective voter education towards the 2015 general elections.
Speaking with LEADERSHIP Weekend at the workshop, YIAGA head, Research Policy and Advocacy, Samson Itodo said the choice of radio as the popular medium for voters’ education is because it is a very magnetic and veritable tool for voter education.
“We are devising radio as a tool for voter education because our targets are the grassroots population, for a lot of people at the grassroots radio is the only means of information or communication that they get, especially in places where there is no social media and studies have shown that radio is a very magnetic tool for voter education and citizens outreach.”
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