Nigeria’s new President Muhammadu Buhari has cautioned the social media against wild speculative reports that could malign national unity even while he thanked that genre of new media for its role in his emergence as president of Africa’s most populous country.

Buhari spoke at his inauguration speech to officially flag off work in office as Nigeria’s CEO and head of armed forces.

“The Nigerian press is the most vibrant in Africa. My appeal to the media today – and this includes the social media – is to exercise its considerable powers with responsibility and patriotism,” said Buhari in his inauguration speech.



His party, All Progressives Congress (APC), ran one of the most vibrant and colourful social media campaign to shore up support for the ‘Change’ mantra that eventually cumulated in the defeat of the ruling party and the swearing in of Buhari as the first opposition candidate in the country’s history to defeat an incumbent.



“I thank those who tirelessly carried the campaign on the social media,” the new president enthusiastically declared in Abuja just after the swearing in ceremony.


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