Presidential media aide, Garba Shehu has accused a micro-blogging site, Twitter of being a promoter of division in Nigeria.
Recall that WITHIN NIGERIA had earlier reported that the federal government on June 4 suspended Twitter operations in Nigeria.
The federal government also alleged that the platform was being used for activities that “undermine Nigeria’s corporate existence”.
Shehu on Monday when he featured on Good Morning Nigeria, a programme on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) justified the suspension of Twitter, saying the platform was being used to attack national cohesion and progress.
“I think in the last few days, we are seeing a firmer determination by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle artificial divisions that are standing in the way of national cohesion and progress of the country,” he said.
“As I said, Twitter is one of them, but from the pronouncement of the president, in the interview he did on Arise TV and the one on NTA here, the speech he gave in Lagos and the broadcast he gave, I think they are suggestive of the fact that the growing heat in the country must not continue.”