Twitter dashes hope of pro-IPOB/ESN Nigerians demanding Buhari’s account suspension, says President breaches no rules

By KEMI KASUMU

The hope of elements of destruction that some foreign based collaborators would join in their plot to collapse the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government and further break up Nigeria suffered a heavy setback on Wednesday, as Twitter owners threw back on them their calls for the President’s account suspension, saying it could not work.

Although they are pro-IPOB/ESN terrorist organisation being promised shocking days ahead in a tweet, they called on the social media organisation on Tuesday to deactivate President Buhari’s account.

Twitter, to their disappointment, maintained that the Africa’s best award winner for performance, President Muhammadu Buhari‘s acclaimed “genocidal” message did not breach its rules, interpretationally meaning the claims were untrue and fake.

President Buhari’s post reacting to the demolition of 42 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) facilities across Nigeria, mainly in the South East, sparked what many as backed by Twitter now confirmed as needless and irresponsible uproar on the microblogging platform.

Nigerians had blamed him for being too silent to the killings by terrorist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) of Police, Immigration, Customs, DSS officers and ambush to death of Army officers and personnel, as well as destruction public facilities.

During the INEC leadership’s visit to the State House in Monday, the President declared a promise to elements responsible for the destructions and killings in parts of the country that a rude shock awaits them and that they would “soon be shocked out of their minds.”

“Many of those misbehaving now are too young to be aware of the havoc and deaths that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War,” he continued. Those of us who spent 30 months in the fields and lived through the conflict will speak to them in their own language.”

Critics, including some activist lawyers and media practitioners of South East extractions lambasted the president for failing to fix the country’s long-running security problems while also threatening to unleash bloodshed akin to that which the Igbos experienced at the hands of Federal Government–controlled military during the civil war triggered by the South East elites and lasted for three years beginning from 1967 and ending 1970.

Despite considerable criticism that followed the tweet, accusing the president of declaring a genocidal war on the Igbos, Twitter confirmed in a statement that Buhari did not break its guidelines.

The DEFENDER reports that even some members of the international community are now wary of information from media circle in Nigeria as many of such had misled them to taking wrong decisions in the past, for instance on #EndSARS protests and the attendant Lekki Toll Gate genocide misinformation.

This time, Twitter replied those Nigerians that: “We’re writing to let you know that, after examining the available information, we didn’t detect a breach of our rules in the content you reported,” the firm wrote after numerous the elements, who are mainly pro-IPOB/ESN terrorists, complained about the president’s post and demanded that he should be suspended from the platform.

“We appreciate that you let us know what happened,” Twitter said, adding that “we encourage you to call out again in the future if you identify any possible violations.”

The social media network, which is known for using harsh measures to enforce its rules, has suspended multiple accounts for dehumanization and content that could incite violence, within which Buhari’s post did not fall, although those that called for his suspension had used Twitter and Facebook to do things that invited multiple killings without them being blocked.

Twitter, News Direct, blocked the account of China’s US embassy in January this year because of a post it deemed “dehumanizing.”

On January 7, a social media post supported China’s policy toward Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang.

According to the account, Uighur women are no longer “baby creating robots,” citing a China Daily survey.

Following that, Twitter took down the tweet and replaced it with a notice that it was no longer available because it violates its policy prohibiting “the dehumanization of a group of individuals based on their religion, caste, age, handicap, serious disease, national origin, race, or ethnicity.”