Even if we encourage ourselves by wishing for peaceful coverage of
the 2019 election processes, as journalists, there are warning signals for us
to prepare for war with this administration. Reason: most of us are beginning to discern
that despite their assurances since May 2015, they are set to tinker ruthlessly
with press freedom for their ‘Project 2019’ .
On March 16, 2015, the then candidate
Muhammadu Buhari told the newspapers’ proprietors and editors: “I won’t tamper
with press freedom…”
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| *President Buhari and his adviser on media, Femi Adesina |
Buhari, who then said a change revolution was imminent in the country without
firing a shot also assured the influential members of the
Newspapers’ Proprietors Association of Nigeria( NPAN) and the Nigerian
Guild of Editors ( NGE) at an interaction in Abuja:
