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Media Outlets and Bloggers Cause Of Unnecessary Tension and Criticisms - Chukwuemerie Uduchukwu

Media Outlets, Social Media and Bloggers
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Some media outlets and bloggers are the true cause of the unnecessary tension and criticisms regularly witnessed in Nigeria. A reporter will just wake up, file a speculation and forward it to his or her editor to be published. That is crazy! It is even unfortunate that some editors always fail to study the logical implications of reports they received from their reporters. Most media are now embarking of speculative journalism in order to be tagged as one of specialists on investigative journalism.

It is even unfortunate that editors of some if not many media outlets are ignorant of the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria as amended and other relevant laws of the federation. I laugh most times I read reports from some media outlets. Any editor that is ignorant of our laws CAN NEVER be a good analyst and any analysis released by a report supervised by such editor will be nothing but a poisoned information that can catalyse unnecessary tension. You can also imagine the kind of editorial media outlets with such editors will be publishing.

Moreover, the carelessness of bloggers and self acclaimed overlords and analysts will be a topic for another day. It is funny that most of such people don't even understand the norms of the polity but are ever ready to capitalize on any speculation to make hits, make noise, get attention and cause unnecessary tension.

It is important to note that majority of people condemning the ministerial lists released on the account that they are nothing new to deserve the four months delay before they were submitted by president Buhari were deceived by agents of speculative journalism, misinformed bloggers and self acclaimed overlords and analysts that were spreading unfounded info that President Buhari had been delaying the list because he is yet to find the 'saints' that he can work with. These folks always forgot that the president has always maintained that he need to understand the status quo of various ministries before making any ministerial appointment and that such can't be achieved without proper probe and some reforms which must certainly take time. The President directly gave the clarification in an opinion article he wrote on Washington post. before his visit to the United states. President Buhari also noted then that he will appoint experienced persons into his cabinet and I doubt if there is any of the appointees disclosed today that lacks experience. Also, there was no direct confirmation from the presidency that the search of 'saints' was the cause of the delay.

These noisemakers that are claiming that there is no technocrat in today's list also forgot that at least 15 additional names will still be submitted to the Senate for screening. Some media even tagged today's lists with the headlines like 'Full list of CONFIRMED Buhari's ministers', what a rubbish!. Such misleading headline is one the causes of confusion among the less informed who thought that those people have been confirmed and that there will be no more nomination. Enough of all these rubbish please.

I will only criticise president Buhari if his ministers fail to perform despite the cleanups he claimed to have implemented in various ministries before their nomination. I will even champion an online campaign for Nigerians to vote him out if such happens. For now, I will always give him maximum benefit of doubt.
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