Former President Goodluck Jonathan said he was unaware his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) engaged the services of Cambridge Analytica to assist him win the 2015 general elections. The former leader made this known on Thursday in a statement made by his spokesman, Ikechukwu Eze. Ikechukwu who was responding to questions from newsmen simply said
“He wasn’t aware of it. “The best thing to do is to wait for the conclusion of the investigation.”
The Federal Government in a statement issued on Sunday said it was probing whether the firm broke the law to wage “a campaign to perpetuate discord and hack into personal records of the then leading opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.”
According to Punch, Regulators in Britain and the United States are investigating claims that Cambridge Analytica unlawfully used Facebook data for political ends in a mushrooming privacy scandal that has cast the spotlight on data protection. The firm has been tied to electoral campaigns around the world, including for US President Donald Trump and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
