The federal government has lashed out at social media giant, Twitter, for playing alleged double standards on issues concerning Nigeria’s domestic issues, describing the company’s role in Nigeria as suspect.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, reacting to questions over the reported deletion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweets reminiscing Nigerians’ experiences during the civil and warning to armed secessionists in the Southeast region of the country on Tuesday, said Twitter had not been fair to Nigeria.

According to the Minister, while the social media giant had conveniently ignored inciting tweets by the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and his cohorts, displaying the same biases it did during the #ENDSARS protest, where government and private properties were looted and set on fire, all in the name of right to protest, it found the President’s tweets offensive.

The President, in series of tweets on Tuesday, via his verified Twitter handle, @MBuhari, had tweeted “many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.”

Twitter, however, deleted the tweet, stating, “this Tweet violated the Twitter Rules”.

Reacting to Twitter’s action, Mohammed 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.


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What is this Lie Lie man saying self,

If Twitter could ban Donald Trumps account( a whole US president ooo) .....

Who does that Vegetable in Aso Rock think he is, that twitter can't delete his useless tweet.

If them born am well, make him send Duara Security Service(DSS) to go arrest Jack Dorsey

Failure weh dey plead with bandits and terrorists.

President that can't grant live audience with the press even when he speaks self, Nigerians with brain (Not BMC's,Cows,Zombies etc) can't understand and Comprehend what he is saying.....

Useless and Failed quota General...

Twitter should be blocked in Nigeria

To them,twitter is now owned and controlled by ipob.now na morning.

Twitter should ban that useless government twitter handle. Buhari PR handlers are so foolish

E pain dem!! Chaiii

Buhari can send in the DSS to arrest the Twitter CEO

Inukwa, so Twitter is now IPOB abi?
Twitter amaka

The issue is that Twitter has done well but not enough.
Infact, Buhari and Nnamdi Kanu should be totally banned from social media.

One is a leader who under his watch, the country is now a kidnapping headquarters. The other is a leader of group of miscreants and terrorists who has been deliberately misinformed that one biafra will one day exist of the blue. A country that will be landlocked till Jesus comes back

Your fathers don't tell you the truth about history. They tried to pull a coup that failed woefully and then thought they could start a country of "chukwudi and ikechwukus" how laughable it is.

Your fathers were the first to kill Nigerian soldiers. the civil war broke out and the Nigerian soldiers went all out. Legend has it that your fathers are still running till today. If you think I am lying, ask Nnamdi Kanu how he left Nigeria in the middle of the night dress like a woman