AFRICAN MIGRATORY DIGITAL AUDIENCE: COULD MEDIATED TECHNOLOGIES RESHAPE THE DEMOCRATIC ECOLOGY IN NIGERIA?

Abstract

This paper examined the strategic roles played by digital mediated technologies like smart phones and tablets, and social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, in African democratic and electoral processes for sound governance with particular reference to 2019 Nigeria General Elections. The study adopted the survey research method with a sample size of four hundred (400) and discovered that INEC used mediated technologies and server to collate and transmit results, but abandoned it half way and announced results not transmitted to the central server. Among the recommendations is that the Nigerian electoral law should as well be amended to provide for the full adoption and use of mediated technologies for collation and transmission of electoral results.