Nowadays, public office (elective and otherwise) now goes with the drive for popularity! The case of politicians are so painful that this popularity gives them more joy than the accomplishment of their duty as public servants.
They even drag the media with celebrities.
Politicians have forgotten there place as public servants. Politicians are not celebrities.
The reason why you see all these happening is because the politicians has misplaced priority, political office holders no want to be relevant through social media space because there's no work for them to show, have you been following up the madness that has been playing out in APC primaries recently? If you've been observing you would've learnt that the country isn't ready to grow, there's nothing like free fair election in Nigeria, infact we shouldn't be expecting any change soon until there is a power shift to some people that have conscience.
Politicians in this country can pay any amount to the media houses to allow them to peddle their lies, they don't care, that's whom that have chosen to be and there's nothing we can do about it.