Ododo to Influencers: Focus on Positive Narrative

Ibrahim Oyewale in Lokoja

Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, has urged young people in the state to focus on positive narrative in their engagement on social media.
Ododo  gave the charge in a message at a one day training programme in Lokoja, organised by the Ododo Media Centre for Media influencers and content creators as part of activities marking his first 100 days in office.

Represented by his Special Adviser on Media, Ismaila Isah, who declared the programme open, he enjoined the participants to go beyond amplifying fault-lines of the people and concentrate on issues that unite citizens of the state.
He stressed that the real spokespersons of the government were the people outside the government who always went out of their way to project policies and programme of the government.

The governor said the training was aimed at building the capacity of persons helping to promote activities of government to have the knowhow and be able to train more social media users to amplify government programmes and policies.
He explained that this would in turn serve as an effective feedback mechanism so as to build a robust engagement between government and people who own the government.

More importantly, he noted that the workshop would skill up the capacity of the younger generation in digital information communication strategy  while promoting good governance.

While encouraging the participants to go outside their ranks in engaging people of diverse views, he implored the content creators to involve in community engagement to communicate impactful projects of government to their various audience.