Another Nigerian celebrity, Darey Art Alade, has sharply criticised the Buhari government for banning Twitter.
He said Buhari had failed on all the expectations of Nigerians, arguing that the only thing he knew how to do was banning Twitter.
He said in a post: “We are all emotionally drained. How much more of this can we really take? Fix the country, No! Fix the economy, No!! Fix insecurity, No!!! Gag the little freedoms remaining, YES!!!! oh and by the way, can you see this tweet?”
On Friday the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, via a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Segun Adeyemi, announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria.
The statement read, “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria.
“The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.
“The Minister said the Federal Government has also directed the National Broadcasting Commission to immediately commence the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria.”
