Lanre Arogundade, Director,  International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, has urged Nigerians to participate in a poll aimed at shaping media reportage ahead of the 2015 elections. He made this appeal on youtube in respect of a nationwide survey being conducted as apart of activities by the Nigerian Democratic Report (NDR) on how the public can set agenda for the media towards 2015 elections.

According to him, the poll is aimed at collating opinions of Nigerians on priority issues that the media should focus reports on and with which politicians can be engaged with, towards the 2015 elections. ” What we are asking Nigerians to do is to pick five issues that they believe constitute their own priority issues that the media should focus reports on. At the end of the day, we want to be able to say that this percentage of Nigerians want the media to focus report on healthcare, this percentage of Nigerians want the media to focus their reports on education and this percentage of Nigerians want the media to focus report on power supply, and so on” he stated.

He added that the public always want the media to set  agenda on development, politics and elections, but that the media may not be able to do so if the media does not know what the public interest on the issues are. “It is important to let us know what your interest is on these issues and when you make this known through the NDR poll at http://www.ndr.org.ng/poll/, we shall pass it across to the media for them to focus their report on and challenge politicians with, towards the 2015 general elections”