Impose visa ban on Buhari, Malami, Lai, PDP tells US, UK, others
Segun Adewole
Segun Adewole
Published 9 June 2021
The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and other members of the international community to “immediately impose a visa ban” on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and “members of his cabinet involved in stifling free speech in Nigeria.”
The party said the ban on Twitter in Nigeria by the Buhari regime is in violation of the UN International Charter on Human Rights.
This was contained in a statement titled, ‘Twitter Ban: Impose Visa Ban on Buhari, Malami, Lai, PDP Tells US, UK, Others,’ signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
The party said this in a statement titled, ‘
Twitter Ban: Impose Visa Ban on Buhari, Malami, Lai, PDP Tells US, UK, Others,’ signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan. The statement reads in part, “
The PDP insists that banning Twitter in Nigeria is a clear violation of Article 19 of the UN Charter as well as section 39 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which guaranteed freedom of expression to all Nigerians.
“The party also urges the world bodies to also sanction the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami as well as certain leaders of the APC for their individual ignoble roles in the ban imposed on Twitter in addition to associated harassments and threats to Nigerians.