Twitter Ban ‘ll Not Gag Nigerians – PDP Taunts APC

BY EDMOND ODOK – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the National Caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of provoking the Federal government’s current suspension of Twitter activities in Nigeria.

But the country’s opposition party maintained that the resiliency of Nigerians will effectively ward off the threat of APC and President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration at suppressing their wishes.

“The APC, in spite of its machinations, cannot vanquish Nigerians in their determination for a free and democratic nation where sovereignty belongs to the people”, the PDP said

Advancing its claims of APC’s complicity in the Twitter ban, a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said; “revelations available to it show how APC leaders at one of their party’s national caucus meetings recommended the regulation of social media in Nigeria and how they have been plotting to obliterate internet-based interaction platforms such as Twitter.”

Ologbondiyan further said in the statement that; “The PDP wants the APC to know that their plot against Nigerians has been exposed and cannot stand. Our nation is known for her resilient citizenry and no leader or political party has been able to suppress the wishes of Nigerians.

“The PDP recalls how the APC Caucus has been pushing bills in the National Assembly, particularly in November 2020, seeking to enforce a draconian regulation of social media so as to gag Nigerians from exposing its atrocities, including human right abuses, treasury looting, nepotism, and sectional marginalization by the APC administration.”

“Nigerians can also recall how the APC administration, in carrying out the agenda of its party, has been using the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, to suffocate the media space with humongous fines and threats of suspension of operating license on broadcast stations”, the statement said