Adamu Garba, a former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has applauded the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria by the Federal Government, saying the company is “anti-Nigerian”.
Garba said this while reacting to the decision of the Federal Government on the microblogging site on Friday.
The suspension of Twitter comes two days after the microblogging site deleted a tweet of President Muhammadu Buhari after it was deemed to have “violated the Twitter rules”.
In his reaction, Garba, who had a day earlier called for the shutdown of Twitter over the deletion of the president’s tweet, said he is delighted because Twitter has been an anti-Nigerian force for two years.
According to the All Progressives Congress (APC) member, Twitter is sympathetic to separatists from the South-East region, adding that actions cannot occur without consequences.
The statement read: “Yes, I’m happy. Seriously. It is clearly showing that actions cannot just happen without consequences,” Garba said on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme.
“Twitter, if you studied their move for the last two years, they have been more of an anti-Nigerian force, for the destruction of Nigeria than actually a platform that’s supposed to advocate for freedom of expression of Nigeria.
“Because if you look at what happened with the removal of some of the tweets of the president, I can’t see very strong or vile word than that of Nnamdi Kanu that was left to still be available on Twitter.
“We have a very serious crisis in the south-east, where these guys are destroying fundamental institutions of Nigerian democracy, INEC offices, police institutions and courts.
“They are killing people on the streets, destroying people’s properties, and then Twitter is behind them.
“I think Twitter is like a kind of IPOB online machine because what they do more is to support IPOB much more than the government. IPOB, everyone knows, they are anti-Nigeria. Their target is to destroy Nigeria.”
Garba had earlier this year instituted a $1 billion lawsuit against Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey, at the Federal High Court Abuja, over their alleged role in the #EndSARS protests.
The politician argued that Twitter’s purported support of the protest contributed to violence in some parts of the country, resulting in the loss of lives and the destruction of properties.
Dorsey had been accused of actively supporting the funding of the #EndSARS protests across the nation, as disclosed by Garba.
