{"id":13294,"date":"2018-11-07T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13294"},"modified":"2018-11-07T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:36:17","slug":"it-is-a-lie-we-did-not-predict-outcome-of-nigerias-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13294","title":{"rendered":"It is a lie; we did not predict outcome of Nigeria&#8217;s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"header\" class=\"site__header\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\"><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 32px;\">Correcting a Media Error: USIP Makes No Prediction on Nigerian Election<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<article class=\"span9\">\n<header class=\"page__header\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Tuesday, November 6, 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta\"><strong>NEWS TYPE:<\/strong>\u00a0Announcement<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"intro-wysiwyg\">A few Nigerian newspapers reported erroneously this week that the U.S. Institute of Peace has made a prediction about the possible outcome of Nigeria\u2019s 2019 presidential election. USIP\u00a0<em>never<\/em>makes predictions about election outcomes and has not done so in this case. The Institute\u2019s work on elections is confined to helping nations avoid electoral violence.<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"wysiwyg\">The erroneous news accounts misrepresent USIP\u2019s recent 20-page report on the\u00a0<a title=\"USIP Special Report -- 'Nigeria\u2019s 2019 Elections: Change, Continuity, and the Risks to Peace' (Sept. 2018)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usip.org\/publications\/2018\/09\/nigerias-2019-elections-change-continuity-and-risks-peace\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"c2eaadcd-e559-4425-ac94-04619d7826b2\">risks to a peaceful 2019 election in Nigeria<\/a>. This study is based on interviews across the country with more than 200 Nigerian respondents\u2014election administrators, political party representatives, security officials, civil society and youth groups, the media, traditional and religious leaders, prominent community figures, business people, academics and others.<br \/>\nThe USIP report noted that, in the interviews, \u201csome respondents\u201d discussed\u00a0<em>their own views<\/em>\u00a0of Nigerian public perceptions about an election outcome. A Nigerian news account mis-reported this passage as a USIP prediction of the outcome, and other Nigerian news organizations repeated the error.<br \/>\nAs USIP is a strictly nonpartisan institution, its work on elections focuses entirely on preventing violence. For more information on USIP\u2019s work on peaceful elections and in Nigeria:<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correcting a Media Error: USIP Makes No Prediction on Nigerian Election Tuesday, November 6, 2018 NEWS TYPE:\u00a0Announcement A few Nigerian newspapers reported erroneously this week that the U.S. Institute of Peace has made a prediction about the possible outcome of Nigeria\u2019s 2019 presidential election. USIP\u00a0nevermakes predictions about election outcomes and has not done so in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}