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Nigeria’s Facebook President

With over 280,000 fans on Facebook, Goodluck Jonathan has been called ‘the Facebook president’ by CNN. Perhaps, this is not far from the truth, having a combined tally of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, German chancellor Angela Merket, and South African head of state Jacob Zuma, on Facebook.

Since the Nigerian president created his Facebook profile in June 2010, he appears to have formed the habit of making daily profile updates on the social networking Website about recent news, events, government policy and the upcoming Nigerian elections, which perhaps explains why he boasts of over a quarter of a million fans in less than 6 months.

Perhaps one of his most notable updates was when he first announced his intentions to contest for the 2011 presidential elections on Facebook, after a long period of speculation on his candidacy. The Facebook status, which was made on September 15, read “I Goodluck Ebele Jonathan by the grace of God hereby offer myself and my services to the Nigerian people as a candidate for the office of President”. As expected, the Facebook announcement was quickly reported by National newspapers making it the first time the social networking site ever made the headlines of Nigerian newspapers.

Political analysts, however, stress that social media platforms cannot play a meaningful role in politics particularly in Nigeria which according to internetworldstats.com, have around 1.7 million Facebook users, a small proportion total electorate.

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  2. VPS Hosting

    October 25, 2010 at 10:23 am

    Facebook is a platform to share our views with others,Goodluck Jonathan gained 280,000 fans a great news in just a small span of time,this blog shows that facebook acting as a good platform for iteraction among all individuals.so now a race for becoming facebook president begins….

  3. Computers Smart Phones Technology

    October 27, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    I was surprised when I saw Nigeria president on Faceabook, I think it is good platform to communicate with the citizen one on one. And the citizen can communicate with him direct on any government policy and what is happening the country.

  4. Tosin

    March 15, 2011 at 6:30 am

    The truth is that the estimate of 1.7 million Nigerian cannot be true. Look we are more than that on facebook and it is growing daily and anyone who discounts the power of social; networking does it at his or her own peril.

    The Egyptian revolution started on facebook. Who says great things ant start the same way here too.

    I keep my fingers crossed, anyway!

    Thanks for sharing!

  5. Ranjan Khadka

    December 4, 2018 at 7:42 am

    Facebook has played a vital role in sharing new ideas and knowledge. Due to which it has been able to grab the attention of people from all over the world. Anyways best of luck for the Facebook president. Thanks a lot for sharing this information.

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