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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 1,634 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.

SOURCE: http://naijapolitica.com/2014/12/27/in-just-4-days-buharis-twitter-followers-rises-to-45000-over-half-of-jonathans-twitter-account-created-4-years-ago/

Twitter: @naijapolitica

hmm.

APC is damn too funny.. what has 45,000 followers on twitter got to do with Buhari losing this forthcoming elections and Jonathan winning this is damn too funny.

Op tell the saTANist, the game is almost over, the boat is sinking rapidly.

tomakint:
APC is damn too funny.. what has 45,000 followers on twitter got to do with Buhari losing this forthcoming elections and Jonathan winning this is damn too funny.

is either you're scared of it or you don't know what it means, well if you don't know, it means Buhari's popularity is growing better than Jonathan's
GEJ can't win the election except he rigs it and the social media will expose him!

lekhane:
is either you're scared of it or you don't know what it means, well if you don't know, it means Buhari's popularity is growing better than Jonathan's
GEJ can't win the election [b]except he rigs it [/b]and[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font] the social media will expose him!

Y do we so easily bring up dis rigging talk.An incumbent Nigerian President is about to lose an election because he has bn rejected by majority of pple.How is he going to rig out a clear majority in dis kind of atmosphere prevailing in nig?
The best projections assumes he wins d ss and se convincingly, yet that vote tally wud @best equate what GMB wud get from lag and kano.NE,NW are landslides for GMB wt massive votes.I have bn checking daily,finding d worse possible scenarios, yet I don't see how gej can win,even if he gets 90% of 90% voter turnout in d se and ss as dey magically conjured in some States last time

And wen it exposes him Buhari will still walk away in shame n maybe peace ll be restored......

Next?

What u call initial gra gra

When he loses the election in a few weeks, he will start to twitfight with all his supporters

Violent man

the dwarf running mate no show again.
ee be like say him don injure!

Hahahaha funny people.
I guess he wants to win on Twitter. Anyway, that can be allowed as he can never win in real life.

Twitter President, carry go!

Next story pls

naijapolitica:
When running for office in 2010, President Jonathan was very active on Facebook and Twitter, which he used to lure younger voters.

and his supporters would want us to believe that APC/buhari is just popular on social media. Why is their paymaster also here to woo voters if popularity on social media is not all that important?

naijapolitica:
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.

this ofcourse gat me laughing.
Support jonathan at your own peril.

ok

Am sure Jona bought those followers with our Dollars
But
Ehh! Ur yansh go soon catch fire

Sai Buhari


#One leg Up

will rather follow patience jonathan for daily jokes than follow mr clueless. Werin e knw wey e wan tlk pass werin okonjo say mke e tlk?