Nigerians have taken to Twitter to call on the micro blogging platform to suspend the handle of President Muhammadu Buhari.
This is coming on the heels of the announcement by the Federal Government that they have banned the operation of Twitter in Nigeria.
It is believed that this announcement is meant to serve as notice to Internet service providers to block Nigerian users from being able to access Twitter.
But more than two hours after, the service is still available across Nigeria.
‘Misplaced’ trended among the top topics following the announcement as Twitter users accuse the Federal Government of having warped priorities, focusing on Twitter because of a deleted presidential tweet when there are a myriads of problems confronting the nation for which they have not been able to come up with a solution.
Other users are calling on Twitter to suspend the account of the president all together. Indeed, the hashtag #TwitterSuspendBuharisAccount is trending at Number 6 with over 54,000 tweets at the time of filing this report.
Other related topic on the top ten topics included ‘Uncle Lai’, VPNS, and ‘Condemn the Ban’.
Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan tweeted: “Retweet to petition @Jack and @Twitter to PERMANENTLY suspend @MBuhari’s account. Buhari is a bloodthirsty war monger in breach of their TOS and should be shut out of decent society!
#TwitterSuspendBuharisAccount
#FacebookSuspendBuharisAccount
#TableShaker
#BuhariTormentor”
A user tweeting under @ayemojubar, said: “Let Buhari be the first to taste the ban @jack. #TwitterSuspendBuharisAccount”
@symplyDAPO said: “Jack go soon take action and dis street won’t be able to contain the happiness, if this actually happens today
#TwitterSuspendBuharisAccount”
@youngichu wrote: “Our Federal Government is funny ooo. You announce that twitter in Nigeria will be suspended but you used the same twitter to make the announcement.
Is (their) head working like this?
#TwitterSuspendBuharisAccount”
