JUST IN: Twitter deletes Buhari’s ‘genocidal tweet’, may ban Nigerian president


Twitter has deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet threatening genocide against the people of Igbo-dominated South-East.

The social media giant deleted Mr Buhari’s tweet following enquiries from Peoples Gazette with the context in which the Nigerian leader issued the threat on Tuesday night.

The Nigerian leader may also be locked out of his account for 24 hours of face a temporary suspension for the offensive tweet, The Gazette learnt.

Earlier, Twitter had seen no wrongdoing in its response to some of those who marked the tweet as genocidal and reported it as a violation of its policy.

But following an enquiry in which The Gazette detailed how the tweet was essentially similar to the one posted by the Chinese Embassy in Washington which Twitter deleted in January and marked as dehumanisation of a protect ethnic group of Uighur, the social media giant backtracked, striking down the tweet of the Nigerian president.

Mr Buhari’s tweet boasted about the role he played alongside other Nigerian military officers in the Nigerian Civil War of 1966-70, during which over three million Igbo civilians were killed, many of them rounded up and shot at close range or starved to death.

The president’s tweet followed widespread attacks on public facilities by unknown attackers in the region, but critics said his comments were an escalation of violence and a promotion of genocide rather than an attempt to curb the excesses of criminals rampaging across the South-East.

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Better

The same treatment meted on Donald Trump should be placed on Buhari, banning his handles from all social media.
Buhari’s words are just too toxic and atrocious to the mind of Nigerians

I am sure Lai Mohammed is planning a way to lock out Nigerians outta Twitter.
But we shall use VPN to nullify his intention

Nna mehnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn


What a senseless statement from a supposed president of a country, this type of statement can only come out from an illiterate who was opportuned to be elected by idiots.

Nigerians can you now see the fool you elected? An idiot, a hopeless animal, a useless old idiot.

The world can now see what Biafrans are passing through all thanks to social media..

Nigeria can never win this present war against Biafrans...

Nice one....


Gbam!!!

Very very good

Buhari Twitter and Facebook accounts should be freezed forever

How can you declare a genocide against women and children in 2021 for the love of God

Are you not a mad man?

Just the beginning. Buhari still think he is in 1967

I hope one Nairaland moderator can learn how Twitter moderators are keeping their platform clean from stupid and disgusting comment from a lifeless president...


How I wish they can just delete his demonic account completely.

That's all he knows
Threats
Bloodshed
Fights and laziness
May the blood of those NYSC corp members whom you haven't called wrong and called out your supporters against keep speaking out.

Horrible supporters

Foolish nonentity president "Buhari".

I just wish that I have some kind of supernatural power to end this fuckup of leaders we have in this shithole of a country.

Hunger and underemployment, after spending about twenty years through school, just dey wire me with anger

Wey that boy simplyleo.
We go commence major military action on twitter because they are terrorists ,with my over 30 months experience in Biafra war.
We'll deal with them like the way I dealt with there parents

The terrorist will end up disgracefully.

FAKE NEWS

SS

CilicMarin:
FAKE NEWS

I'm sure you have bipolar disorder

They should ban him already, Buhari and fools who typed dat crap for him are mad

Ravern:
Just the beginning. Buhari still think he is in 1967

That niggarrrr think of himself as Hitler

Every second his handlers allows him to express himself always backfires,he is just an embodiment of failures.

CilicMarin:
FAKE NEWS

You have brain, Use it.

CilicMarin:
FAKE NEWS

mumu lee

He should be banned not just from Twitter but from every social media space on planet earth. How can a president who's supposed to be seen as a father of all be threatening genocide against a particular region. A useless presidency that releases captured Bokoharam terrorists and killers and treat them to a sumptuous dinner and all expense paid trip abroad.

Wanted to be acting like he had action. An action that was almost invisible when it regards cases of Boko Haram and herdsmen.

It has already gone viral, the world is watching.

Phoolish tyrant !

I mean WHAT RELATED insecurity [that has ravaged the north & middle belt for years now by the way] to an actual Civil war? I struggle to find the correlation & relationship.

Vice President BDSM whose hands are tied couldn't tell him that was out of line? Its all,....surreal.

The Fulani regime will reap what they sowed.
Bloody terrorist murderers.

Twitter should have banned him instead. That man is notorious and will repeat same thing in the future... No wait! We are axing him out by 2023

Then twitter would be very foolish. They give NK the platform to run his hateful campaign and insurrection against the Nigerian state.

nipping the bud

-Osu amaka

Where is the tweet?