Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday lamented the negative impact of social media on Nigerian political leaders.
The Senate president, who spoke while fielding questions from Course 29 participants at the National Defence College in Abuja, where he delivered a paper titled: Strategic Leadership: My Political Experience, said political leaders in the country are now at the mercy of social media.
“Maybe throughout history, no leadership ever faced the kind of challenge that is being faced by present leaders because of social media. Today, almost everybody is a journalist”, Lawan said.
The Senate president also charged the Federal Government to consider establishing a Electoral Offences Commission in the country.
According to him, such a commission would help to reduce the number of people that violate electoral laws.
“I believe we should have an Electoral Offences Commission. I believe it will help to minimise incidents of people taking the law into their hands during elections to perpetuate violence in order to influence the outcome of the voting process,” Lawan said.