Oyogist has learned that the Nigerian minister for information, Lai Mohammed has expressed disappointment after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet was deleted by Twitter.
According to the minister, the mission of the micro blogging platform In Nigeria Is Suspicious.
Lai Mohammed dragged the social media giant fot constantly ignoring tweets by the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and his cohorts.
The information minister said:
“Twitter may have its own rules; it’s not the universal rule. If Mr. President, anywhere in the world feels very bad and concern about a situation, he is free to express such views. Now, we should stop comparing apples with oranges. If an organisation is proscribed, it is different from any other which is not proscribed.
“Two, any organisation that gives directives to its members, to attack police stations, to kill policemen, to attack correctional centres, to kill warders, and you are now saying that Mr. President does not have the right to express his dismay and anger about that? We are the ones guilty of double standards.
“I don’t see anywhere in the world where an organisation, a person will stay somewhere outside Nigeria, and will direct his members to attack the symbols of authority, the police, the military, especially when that organisation has been proscribed. By whatever name, you can’t justify giving orders to kill policemen or to kill anybody you do not agree with,” he said.
