The Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed has warned media house not to announce unverified results on their platforms.
The minister gave the warning after casting his vote in the presidential and national assembly elections, in Kwara on Saturday.
In his words, “You don’t have to post election results without checking the source and the best way and most authentic is to hear from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“The media houses should abide by the National Broadcasting Commission’s (NBS) regulations regarding the announcement of election results.
“What we have noticed in the past 20 years is that election violence does not start during voting but it is at the point of collation or announcement of results that violence starts.
“False news is a fuel of this kind of violence because if you post false results from a particular unit and it is at variance with the authentic result by INEC, that would lead to violence.”
