Nigeria 2023 Elections: Media Coverage Under Serial Suppression

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Nigeria 2023 Elections: Media Coverage Under Serial Suppression

Nigeria will hold its seventh general elections in the democratic era in February 2023 with the build-up to the polls proving ominous for the media. President Muhammadu Buhari, a retired military general, had promised that one of the legacies he would leave behind is free and fair elections, in emulation of his predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who is hailed to have handed over power after organizing rancour-free elections.

Buhari has also on multiple occasions touted his administration as having upheld press freedom and freedom of expression, and recently reaffirmed this position in the build-up to the 2023 polls.