***Charge Nigerians to Develop Homegrown, Competitive Social Media Applications

Our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) salutes President Muhammadu Buhari and the patriotic citizens of our nation for standing firm against the interference of Twitter Inc. in Nigeria's internal and national security affairs.

Mr. President indeed stood up for the sovereignty of our nation until Twitter acceded to all six demands of the Federal Government of Nigeria concerning their practices in matters concerning our nation.

We also applaud Twitter for allowing good reason and common interest prevail by agreeing to open their office in Nigeria. This is a win-win for all parties and will create jobs and gainful opportunities for Nigerians in the global digital space.

By also agreeing to enrol Nigeria in its Partner Support and Law Enforcement Portals, Twitter has demonstrated it's commitment to help Nigeria fight crime and criminals on their platforms who violate both Twitter rules and Nigeria's laws.

Our party, therefore applaud the decision by Mr. President to lift the suspension on Twitter’s activities in Nigeria, we encourage our supporters to return to the platform and continue to spread the achievements of President Buhari and our great party.

Still, we should not rest on our oars. Russia has VKontakte (VK), China has Weibo, among several homegrown social media platforms. Nigerians talented in the development of social media/software applications are challenged to develop homegrown applications that can rival existing social media platforms and meet the need of Nigerians.

Finally we reiterate our charge to operators of social media pages to use their platforms to check divisive and inciting rhetoric, particularly in Nigeria. They have an important responsibility to curb fake news, disinformation, hate speech, among others.

SIGNED:
*Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe Ph.D*
National Secretary
APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC)

https://twitter.com/OfficialAPCNg/status/1481691274604421120?t=PoAN0-uIRilX8A2qEayneg&s=19

exactly what i know they will say. twitter will be the medium to campaign

Election is around the corner so they need the Twitter

What a load of trash !

APC should not post their useless campaign on Twitter o.

Twitter would also train Nigerian IT personnel and strategic intelligence officers

In all of these, this is the part We love most.
Thumbs up Twitter!

Slow and steady we will get to the nation of our dreams.

God bless Nigeria.




Twitter made a statement in which they said they don't know President Buhari and which country he runs.

When you're blinded by hate and self imposed narrow mindedness, you will applaud someone who is clearly insulting you.
Most Nigerians who are sympathetic with Twitter today don't know how much of an insult this comment is to even them.
They see Buhari as the target here but there are two elements in this insult.
Twitter says they don't know President Buhari.
But they didn't stop there.
They also added that they don't know the country he is leading. In other words they don't know Nigeria.

Twitter is brazenly saying they don't know Africas most populous nation and the country with the highest concentration of black people in the world. Twitter is brazenly saying they don't know a country where over 11 billion dollars of their revenue comes from with over 40 million subscribers.


Some years ago Pastor Chris Oyakhilome chose to use twitter to communicate some prayer information to Christ Embassy members worldwide.
Within few weeks Pastor Chris broke the records of having the most amount of followers within such a short period.

In their arrogance, Twitter called Pastor Chris' twitter account to question and described the followership as bogus.

Simply put, Twitter believed that nobody from a place like Nigeria had enough clout to garner such followership within such a short time - a feat that no Hollywood star was able to achieve -.

Pastor Chris wasn't prepared for their drama, he pulled out of twitter and challenged his church tech people to design a platform that the church can use. That's what gave birth to Yookos.

Today Yookos is a formidable competitor with Twitter so much so that ex President Barack Obama acknowledged the giant strides made by the platform within such a short time after it was launched.

Eventually twitter confirmed Pastor Chris' account and "apologized" but it was too late.
Pastor Chris had moved his huge followership into Yookos.

Several years later Twitter is saying that they don't know the country that the same Pastor Chris comes from.
That's arrogance taken too far.

Any Nigerian who tolerates this insult is just a self hating sychophant.

Someone says you and your country don't matter and you're jubilating.
Is that not a serious sickness?

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On a lighter note,
*We heard someone telling his landlord that his rent money for the year is trapped in his Twitter account*

*The landlord too is now abusing Buhari

Dem [/b] : AKA [b]DA truth in da building!

Truth is not bitter, just that some people are bitter to the truth.

We Rise!

EXOUSIAng:

You said it all

True that!
Nothing to be added.....obviously!

Buccalcavity2:
Nice one on Twitter Ban. The ban resulted in a lot of positives for the country.

benuejosh:
Buhari actually is the best thing that has ever happened to Nigeria. Social media needs to be seriously regulated.

You can say that again sirs.
You are two of the wise and intelligent members we have on this forum.
It is always good and refreshing to see we still have reasonable and sensible members like you on this forum.
God bless you sirs

deepdeep:
Which nigerians?

Sane, honest and hardworking Nigerians


If you don't gerrit, forget abourrit!

APC knew buhari was standing alone
All this while he was ranting on Twitter ban
Yet they still Claim Twitter ban is for the good of Nigerians
What a confuse being
The truth is Buhari only lifted ban on Twitter so his media crew can boldly comment
Meanwhile
BMC now:

Lol. This people are patronising Nigerians. Mtchewww.

Ordinary Social Media na Achievement too.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
This is saddening!

Useless people

God what is this...

Changing the narrative

APC - Party of foo.ls

As usual

Holly Gram WTF MAN

Yes

For the next Election APC needs to add we will ban Snapchat to detect real beauty....

Also we will ban TikTok so dat people can be serious with there life in d next Election manifesto....


Yeye people hailing wetin no b u invent....

Yeye party

Further evidence that the abomination called the Dullard and his Crowwe Jihadists is nothing more than a sack of stinking poo whose worthless life has been a curse on everything he touches.

I just love the way Dr Olufunmilayo finished the fools

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Which stupid Nigerians? Only senseless and dimwitted berebe banza pigs from the sh1t slinging region of the sad _waste will hail him. It's their calling the applaud every stupidity of their master

Which nigerians?

Is it not APC?

Which Nigerians? Same Nigerians that have been opposing their tyranny? Una know say clock is now ticking for the evil regime final time out?

My shame dey shame for una shame

What an abuse of Office...
And nonsense statement

Failure Hail Failure.

The meaning of APC in chinese language is FAILURE

They want to campaign on Twitter

What interference?

So you expect that when you as a devilish political party and people are doing the wrong thing, the international community should keep quiet abi.

God will shame all of you.

Lol
Anyone shouting tinubu and apc in 2023 suppose collect 2 by 2 for neck
Better wiping

Hailing failure