The federal government has formally given X.com 24 hours to pull down an anti-President Bola Tinubu tweet posted by activist, Omoyele Sowore.
Sowore in the tweet disparaged the President over the latter’s remark in Brazil where he said that corruption in Nigeria has ended under his government.
“This criminal @officialABAT actually went to Brazil to state that there is NO MORE corruption under his regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly!” the Sahara Reporters publisher wrote.
In reaction, the federal government has written to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of X.com, demanding the removal of Sowore’s tweet from the platform.
In the communication made by the Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS), the government said the tweet is misleading and made with willful intention to cause serious harm, and incitement to violence.
It accused Sowore of Cyber crime, hate speech, and intention to discredit the President, and gave X.com 24 hours to bring down the material.
“The author and purveyor of the inflammatory online Publication against Mr. President is very much aware that the publication is also prohibited by Section 2 of the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act, 2022 and other relevant Laws of Nigeria.
“It is not in doubt that the words employed by Mr. Omoyele Sowore is misleading information, online harassment and abuse willful intention of furthering and ideology, capable of serious harm, hate speech, cause disunity, discredit the President of Nigeria in the comity of Nations to damage the image of Nigeria and cause threat to National Security of the Country,” the statement read partly.
