The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it rejects what it calls the unwarranted suspension of the social media platform, Twitter, by the Federal Government, describing it as a slide towards a fascist regime in the country.
Reacting to the measure announced Friday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the party asserted that the suspension is a vexatious, condemnable and barbaric move to muzzle Nigerians, particularly the youths, ostensibly to prevent them from holding the Buhari administration accountable.
The PDP said it is appalled that the Federal Government could exhibit such “primitive intolerance and power intoxication because the social media giant demonstrated international best practices in not allowing the Buhari presidency to use Twitter as a platform to propagate and spread the Buhari administration’s hatred towards Nigerians.”
The PDP insisted that rather than being a platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence, as claimed by the minister, Nigerians, particularly the youths, have been using the social media platform, largely, for activities that promote unity as well as social, economic and commercial interaction in the country.
The party noted that Mohammed, in his statement, failed to cite an example of where Nigerians used Twitter as a platform to promote acts that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence as he claimed.
It added: “Of course, the failure to give any such instance confirms that the Federal Government is only out to victimise Nigerians.
“The Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration are only afraid of Nigerians on Twitter because of their machinations for which they dread the Nigerian youths.
“Moreover, freedom of speech is firmly guaranteed in our constitution and the Buhari administration should be ready to face Nigerians over its misrule.
“In the case of any infringement, our nation has adequate extant laws to deal with such and not this move to gag the people.”
The PDP, therefore, charged President Buhari to end this assault against Nigerians by immediately and unconditionally rescinding its decision to ban Twitter, as such amounts to pushing our citizens to the wall.
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