On today's episode of Watching The Vote Hour, Yiaga Africa's Program Officer, Anthonia Onda and Deputy Director of National Orientation Agency, Akinola Adeyemi dissected findings from the pre-election environment ahead the Ekiti elections and how citizens can participate from an informed perspective. 

WatchingTheVote Hour is a Citizens' platform for election discussion. As part of effort to increase citizens participation and ensure informed citizens participation for the Ekiti State, Yiaga Africa has kicked off its pre-election observation and will be providing accurate and timely information before, during and after the elections.

Ahead of the November 6th Governorship election in Anambra State, Yiaga Africa through its Watching The Vote project has kicked off a citizens engagement radio program. This signals the commencement of voter education and sensitization campaigns for the citizens of Anambra state to ensure improved citizens’ participation for the election.

The weekly programme tagged “WatchingTheVote Hour” provides a platform for citizens to engage election stakeholders before, during and after the Governorship election in the state which will take place on November 6, 2021.  Watching The Vote Hour kicked-off live on Ogene Radio 98.3FM from 9-10am on Wednesday, 25th August 2021 and will run till the end of the Governorship Election.  In the course of the show, we will be discussing issues around election observation, how election observation is critical in ensuring credible elections, the role of citizens in election observation and how the advanced Election Day observation methodology, called the Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) will be used.

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