27/07/2025
Some key deliverables expected from the forthcoming Progressive Digital Media Summit
By Offor Davidson
In a few days time, precisely on the 1st and 2nd of August 2025, young progressives from across the country will rarely gather in Abuja for the highly anticipated and eagerly awaited first edition of the Progressive Digital Media Summit (PDMS) hosted by the Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Social Media, Hon. Dada Olusegun, the event will bring ‘the data boys’, influencers, content creators, script writers and communications experts under one roof to discuss some national issues, interface with the government and strategize on ways to move our nation forward under the current Renewed Hope administration.
There are some underlying deliverables I am looking forward to at the PDMS, I will try to run through a few below
PDMS will offer progressives, especially the young ones from across the country and beyond as some in the diaspora have indicated interest in physically attending the event, the rare weekend opportunity to meet and greet and network amongst ourselves.
This is indeed rare because since the formation of the party and the eventual take over of power in 2015, opportunities for the young minds to gather together have been seldom and very infrequent, I can barely count very few events where the party has been intentional about their young minds by bringing them together, so the PDMS will avail us the chance to mingle again with like minds
The PDMS will also serve as an interface between the stakeholders in the digital media world and the government officials, as a high powered government officials, including the President will be present, keynote speakers and panelists have been carefully drawn across all sectors for the event
There is a popular opinion in the street that our party, APC has been lucky with lots of foot soldiers especially on the social media front who go all out for the party, despite name calling like ‘N30k BMC data boys’ to the ridiculous statement that those of us that promote our country on the digital media spaces are being paid N20k per month, we have stayed the course and are ever determined not to let those that don’t want our country to succeed because of the man at the helms of affairs have their way.
Some of these patriots do so even without getting a penny anywhere to buy the smallest data in a month, so the PDMS if my memory serves me correctly is the first event organized by the APC led government purposely for these digital media warriors that receive lots of name calling daily and abuse, their offense being that they unmask the propaganda machines of the EMERGENCY LOVERS OF NIGERIA
Considering the role social media plays in our society in these modern era and putting into consideration how it was deployed in the 2023 general elections in my country, this summit can’t come at any better time as minds with similar harmonious interests and ideas will strategically align as we begin the next round of politicking for the 2027 elections. Never shall we allow such scenarios in 2023 to repeat itself again.
So the PDMS should achieve this as part of its deliverables
One of the major highlights of the event will be the official unveiling of PBATVersary 2.0, a compendium documenting the milestones of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration over the past two years put together by the PBAT Media Center, the 1.0 was written last year during the President’s one year anniversary
As major stakeholders in the progressive digital media space gather for the PDMS, we will take an overview of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, its noble reforms and the litany of infrastructural developments across the country and I am sure that the motion to enable such to continue beyond 2027 will be moved and adopted
