October 20, 2024
Lai Mohammed

The Nigerian government condemned Twitter Inc. for deleting a tweet in which the country’s leader threatened to crackdown on separatists.

The social media giant’s actions are “suspect,” Information Minister Lai Mohammed told journalists in the capital, Abuja, Tuesday. President Muhammadu Buhari has “the right to express dismay and anger” about recent attacks targeting security agents in southeastern Nigeria, he said. Twitter took down Buhari’s tweet for violating its rules.

Twitter didn’t delete “violent tweets” by the leader of a secessionist movement, Mohammed said. Nnamdi Kanu has sought to revive a 1960s bid to create an independent state of Biafra, an uprising that sparked a civil war in which more than a million people died.

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