THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT POLITICS: A CASE STUDY OF OVIA NORTH EAST LOCAL GOVERNEMNT, EDO STATE

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research work is to examine the Role of Social Media on Local Government politics: Using Ovia North East as a case study. Three Research questions and Three Research hypothesis was examined in the study. To achieve this, the descriptive survey research design was adopted. The study focused on Ovia North East Local government Area hence, population consists of all adults 18 years and above, residing in Ovia North East Local government Area. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 75 adults. To this end, the researcher recommended that social media should be used more on campaigns of those seeking politcal offices to reveal their manifestoes to a wider reach of electorates. The harmful effect of using social media to discredicts political opponents through spreading of dissinformation and fake news should be stopped by those politicians involved as the betterment of the country is more than anyones selfish interests. The laws on punishments of those spreading fake news should be properly enforce, to desist those involved in spreading fake news.