Mr Buhari’s image was featured on Indian App's social media advert with the app promising to provide “exclusive updates from him only on Indian App!”

President Muhammadu Buhari appears to have become a special ambassador to Indian social media platform Indian App as his image was featured on Indian App's social media advert with the app promising to provide “exclusive updates from him only on Indian App!”

The app Indian App's, similar to Twitter, emerged onto the Nigerian market in June. This was soon after the Nigerian government banned Twitter and its operations within the country.

Twitter was banned two days after the platform removed a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists in the South-East region of the country.

Indian App's popularity subsequently surged as official federal government social media platforms stopped tweeting and migrated to Koo.

Top government functionaries, presidential aides, agencies, and other pro-government individuals also took to Koo.

The Federal Government stated that all social media platforms operating in Nigeria must be registered as a business entity locally henceforth. The same condition was laid down as one of the preconditions for the lifting of the ban on Twitter.

The Indian microblogging site has since moved in to cash in on the development, preparing to establish a physical presence in Nigeria while connecting with top influencers.

Indian App co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna hinted from his Twitter handle:

“@kooindia is available in Nigeria. We’re thinking of enabling the local languages there too. What say?”

Within days of the Twitter ban, Koo was available on Apple and Google’s app stores and job openings had been posted on LinkedIn searching for local language speakers.

Indian App's entry into Nigeria is similar to the circumstances around its introduction to its home market.

After the Indian App launched, thousands of farmers started protesting three controversial agricultural laws, many people took to Twitter to complain. The Indian government demanded that Twitter suspend accounts of some media houses and opposition, insisting that they were spreading misinformation.

Indian App positioned itself as a government-friendly alternative to Twitter, as the social media platform’s vocal support for freedom of expression was not accepted by the Prime Minister Modi-led government. This led to it becoming a platform for promoting hate and anti-Muslim rhetoric.

In Nigeria, the Buhari-led administration has been vocal about their desire to impose control over social media, which has been widely used by activists and opposition groups to challenge government narratives.

Nigeria’s ministry of information and culture has imposed increasingly stringent regulations under the guise of tackling “misinformation.”

The latest advertorial of Mr Buhari as the face of Koo is Nigeria received an excoriation from civil society organisation, Center for Democracy and Development, CDD.

“Its a shame the #TwitterBan has persisted till now, despite the economic disaster it has proven to be for youths who depend on #twitter for their livelihoods.

For obvious reasons, we find this ad by #koo, another microblogging platform, both immoral and distasteful.

KeepitOn,” CDD tweeted on Sunday.

Peoples Gazette


lalasticlala mynd44

Every reasonable country would associate with a man who has balls. A man who is able to keep a country together despite the constant and intentional friction caused by a minor section of a country.

That being said, every country respects Muhammad Buhari

op you made a mistake,now go back and change the headline to "Buhari becomes ambassador for Indian hemp".

Leaving Twitter to join Koô is just as senseless as dumping a halfcaste to date an albino.

But cows don't think, they happily follow their herdsman's lead whenever he hits them the hardest.
That's why they are cows but should humans also reason like cows just because they've lived with them most of their lives?

It was meant to be crowwe to the world but Nigeria happened to it.

Know it's Koo?

Nibo la n koo lọ?

If he had shame shouldn't he be calling the app to come open office in Nigeria


Since his policies have killed youths desire to create alternative in Nigeria

ONLY IF THEY KNOW BUHARI IS BADLUCK.
HIS IMAGE WILL RUN DOWN THEIR APP,MAKE THE COMPANY BANKRUPT.
AND THEY WILL START COLLECTING LOAN TO PAY FOR OFFICE SPACE.

Frankly, Some Nigerians complain alot and most media houses are doing their best to continue fueling doubts in the mind of people.

I'm using Koo and I love it there. Very decent with their yellow birdy color and less lousy unlike twitter (no offense to twitters users). Media houses are already using Koo so of people gazette don't feel like migrating then that's their friggin problem.

People are still accessing twitter up till now.... A little threat from the government is not enough for people to be wailing up and down.

Whatever Koo did is simply the rules of business which is too always seize any available opportunities from your competitors downfall.

Signal did that too with whatsapp

No bi only Koo, na kokorukooo.

I blocked the ads on Facebook when I saw it and ever since then Facebook hardly show me Baba's pictures