According to American recording artist and actress, Jennifer Hudson, “the only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting and being.” For some time, I have taken keen interest in the political climate in Nigeria. Politics in Nigeria can be indeed fun to follow and Nigerian youths who had hitherto shown apathy towards politics are also beginning to show interest in politicking. One of the platforms where their thoughts can be monitored is via the social media. They are increasingly expressing their interests and dissatisfactions about happenings around them via the new media. The 2012 American election between the incumbent President Barack Obama and his challenger Senator Mitt Romney is adjudged as one of the most competitive elections in history because their campaign teams deployed social media tools strategically. It’s so unfortunate, Nigerian politicians are more social gathering-inclined than social media inclined. They call meetings upon meetings with no clear view of what they are in for come 2015. Nigerians have already started talking and we are people that enjoy talking. Go to the newsstands and listen to what most Nigerians are saying, it’s politics, politics and politics. Now, we have taken it to a whole new level, the use of social media. The change has come. With more youths enjoying political discourse on social media, the rate at which political news spreads is unimaginable. For instance, debate and criticisms followed the girl-child marriage issue last week, causing a senator to weep like a baby. Some may have inadvertently ended their political career with the positions they took on the topic The social media tagged the drama, #ChildNotBride. The change has come. With the ban on pasting of posters by the Lagos State government, political aspirants are now expected to go about their campaign via social media. More politicians are beginning to see the need to move over to the social media.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:29:27 +0000
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