Bashir Ahmad, the Personal Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, and Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, have been caught using Twitter, despite the existing ban on the microblogging platform in Nigeria.

FIJ’s independent investigation revealed that Shehu liked a tweet by Defense News Nigeria praising the prowess of the Nigerian Army on September 5, exactly three months after the ban.


Similarly, Ahmad liked a tweet by Abiy Ahmed Ali, the Ethiopian president, on September 11. Again, on October 28, Ahmad liked a tweet from Haramain Sharifain, the official news handle of the two grand mosques in Saudi Arabia.

While these government officials may have liked the tweet outside Nigeria, there is a strong indication that they did not intend to make their use of the microblogging platform public. Until the government of Muhammadu Buhari banned Twitter on June 5, Shehu and Ahmad were prolific users of the platform, feeding their large audience updates on the activities of the federal government and defending it against critics.



Meanwhile, Nasir El-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor, was under fire on Wednesday for resurfacing on Twitter despite its ban. El-Rufai, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and ardent supporter of Buhari’s government, said he could only use Twitter “for the time being” as he was outside the country.

Hadiza, el-Rufai’s wife, also tweeted on Thursday for the first time since June 6, saying she missed Twitter.

The Nigerian government banned Twitter after the platform deleted tweets by the Nigerian president threatening the southeast with a possible repeat of the 1967 civil war over attacks by rebels.

The Nigerian government said although the deletion of Buhari’s tweets factored into its decision, it was ultimately based on the spread of fake news on the platform and a litany of other problems which threatened Nigeria’s corporate existence.

https://fij.ng/article/garba-shehu-bashir-ahmad-caught-using-twitter-despite-ban/

If u still dy believe anything for this govt.I pity u cuz u no wise

Na dem dey mak stupid policy going bak to violate am that's how one of dem dey use Cryptoo app the oda day...

Buhari's government is populated with hypocritical buffoons who only believe in the idea of do as I say, not as I do.

Foolish Government

These Boko Haram hypocrites? They get one single shame?

They manufacture laws from their arse, threaten fire and brimstone to any opposing view then go ahead to do all the things they said you shouldn't do.

You can't really shame the shameless.

May be they are twitting from Sudan

The stupidest people on earth are those who defend buhari

Like how can you be dedicated to stupidity?

Ok explain how elrufai, Garba shehu, Bashir Ahmed can be using Twitter (that should be deactivated) yet you are defending same peoole that they are teaching Twitter how to respect


Mind you Twitter hasn't fulfilled the conditions you claim they bowed to

Like the North obeys any rules in Nigeria, they see the rest if you as slaves

Buhari's men are an association of HYPOCRITES

Hausafulanis and Hypocrisy are Siamese twins.

Even Malami the Chief law officer of the country is not left out of the hypocrisy, using VPN to access Twitter just to deactivate his account

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Hypocrisy and some people are like Siamese twins.

This Buhari government is just filled with stupid, shameless, irresponsible bloody hypocrites with no iota of integrity. Any wonder they have been ruling Nigeria based on lies and propaganda?

To think that Garba Shehu was a former NUJ president while Femi Adeshina was president Guide of Editors makes it unthinkable why they will gladly support a govt that suppress press and human freedom.Spits!

E choke

They're very eager to join us on Twitter.

Father lord please don't allow Jack to listen to these Arewa bandits in government

Foolish hypocrites.

Rubbish

You don't know that they are above the law

Unfortunately,they are literally unquestionable, untouchable, unaccountable, unreliable, unrepentant and hypocritically irredeemable

Bushmeat don catch the hunter

So the lesson here is that even those that wine and dine, support and chant the decree of Buhari knows their rights are being trampled on just like everybody else but in politics party loyalty is better than the Truth!

Is About to go down

This is what this govt is all about

..........praising the prowess of the Nigerian Army

God bless our gallant Army for all the progress they are making in tackling terrorists and all other menace in our darling country.
Nigeria will win this war.
God bless Nigeria ��

Useless Terriost

they're human after all but I still blame them for not educating that cow in asorock that only valued cow to be banning social media platform



what's twitter usefulness to Buhari that can't even struggle to have a degree despite making huge fraud cash during his head of state regime and. min of petroleum

Buhari is a failure

List of people wey dey live fake life:

1. Politicians
2. Africa celebrities
3. Most religious people
4. A girl wey wan get wetin her mate get via toto business
5. Most nairalanders wey dey act like say dem no care about babes/women but dem dey steadily beg babes via inbox
Laslas eeh, majority of people na hypocrites


I don talk am before and I go talk am again "The day I go mistakenly born girl pikin, I go *******"