Nigerians criticise Buhari after Twitter deletes controversial tweet
Mr Buhari in a tweet on Tuesday threatened to deal decisively with those “bent on destroying Nigeria through insurrection . 2 min read
Many Nigerians flooded the social media space on Wednesday to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari following Twitter’s removal of his controversial tweet many believed was targeted at Igbo-dominated South-eastern region of the country.
The reactions to Twitter’s verdict had shot Mr Buhari to the position of the second most trending Nigerian topics on the microblogging site as of the time of filing this report on Tuesday.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how Twitter deleted Mr Buhari’s tweet which was seen as a veiled threat to the South-east region.
Late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua dreamt of fixing Nigeria’s power and energy sector by 2020.
Elected in 2007, Mr Yar’Adua planned to carry out infrastructural and institutional reforms in the sector but died three years into his tenure in 2010. However, 11 years after his death, Nigeria is still grappling with erratic power supply.
“In the first six months, it will be power and energy. That is what is so critical, and I have said publicly that I will declare the sector a national emergency because almost all the other sectors of our economic and social life, in trying to develop a modern nation, depend on it,” the late president said in an interview with The News shortly after his victory at the poll.