The @ThisIsBuhari Twitter handle of
General Muhammadu Buhari, the
presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), has
amassed over 45,000 followers in just
four days.

By contrast, President Goodluck
Jonathan’s @JGoodlucktweets, which is
four years old, has just about 40,000
more followers.
Jonathan created his Twitter account
exactly 1,635 days ago, on July 6 2010, and now has
84,800 followers. The account appears to have
stopped growing, as it has been in the region of
84,000 since he declared his run for a second term a
few weeks ago.
Buhari’s account was created on Dec 22, and had by
the afternoon of December 26, Eastern Standard
Time, amassed a following of 45,200.
It is also of interest that in the past four years,
President Jonathan has tweeted only 129 times, about
two tweets per month. His last tweet appeared on
November 11, 2014.
In comparison, Buhari has tweeted 55
times in his four days on Twitter, his last one
appearing yesterday, December 25, 2014.
Buhari’s running mate, Yemi Osinbajo,
also got into Twitter two weeks ago, on
December 10, and his followers are now up to 25,000.
Vice President Namadi Sambo, who is also running for
a second term, has an even older Twitter account
than President Jonathan’s, but although his account
was created in February 2010, he has only 3,188
followers.
When running for office in 2010, President Jonathan
was very active on Facebook and Twitter, which he
used to lure younger voters.
After the election, when the same
supporters, some of whom said they had voted to him
but not the PDP, began to demand accountability and
productivity, they were quietly ignored by President
Jonathan.
As their agitations mounted on social
media, in August 2012 President openly denounced
them through spokesman Reuben Abati, who in an
article called them “army of sponsored and self-
appointed anarchists,” competing among themselves
to pull him down.
Jonathan included in the demographic “all the cynics,
the pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting, self-
appointed activists, the idle and idling, twittering,
collective children of anger, the distracted crowd of
Facebook addicts, the BBM-pinging soap opera gossips
of Nigeria.”
It is an assault the very vocal group does not seem to
have forgotten.

No fear my Comrade,we will Ping him out of government,that statement is his downfall.

dwilliams:
No fear my Comrade,we will Ping him out of government,that statement is his downfall.

Exactly Bro

sureteeboy:
Vice President Namadi Sambo, who is also running for
a second term, has an even older Twitter account
than President Jonathan’s, but although his account
was created in February 2010, he has only 3,188
followers. .