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From Unfulfilled Manifestos to Machine-Generated Promises: AI as a Tool of Populist Politics in Nigeria’s 2027 Elections in view.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming political communication, creating new possibilities for the production, adaptation, personalisation and circulation of electoral messages. In Nigeria, this development emerges within a political environment already characterised by unfulfilled electoral promises, weak political institutions, public distrust and populist mobilisation. While electoral promises traditionally provide citizens with a basis for evaluating political leaders and demanding accountability, AI-generated political content introduces a new challenge by making it pos…
