Following the Federal government’s decision to suspend the operations of Twitter in Nigeria after the platform deleted President Buhari’s tweets referencing the Civil war, former Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, has called on Twitter and other social media platforms to delete the accounts of President Buhari.
His tweets read: ”I said it before and let me reiterate it again that it is only a ‘jonah’ in a ship that can make such pronouncement, suspending Twitter from the country. God, please save us from President Buhari, ‘the jonah in our ship’.
Those undermining the rights of Nigerians to freedom of expression should themselves not enjoy such right.
Therefore, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other Social media platforms should deactivate all accounts associated with @MBuhari and his govt as done in Turkey in 2020 for us to have peace in Nigeria.”
Kemi Filani would recall that just few hours ago, Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, deactivated her Twitter account.
She took the decision hours after the federal government announced a ban on the micro-blogging site.
“I will be deactivating my Twitter account for now.
“Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria,” she tweeted at 11:59pm on Friday.
Minutes later, the account, which had over one million followers as of June 4, was no longer available on the social media platform.
However, the account of her husband, @MBuhari, was still active as of the time of filing this report.