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The decision of the federal government to suspend the use of Twitter in Nigeria has been condemned by a group of lecturers based mostly in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n

Recall that the federal government on June 4 had announced the suspension of the microblogging platform<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This suspension came\u00a0after a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari was taken down by the social media platform.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Thursday, the group which consists of mostly lecturers \u2014 many of whom are in the diaspora \u2014 and a few members of civil society organisations, described Buhari as a \u201cdictator<\/a>\u201d, adding that the only difference between his regime of 1984 and the present administration is that he no longer wears \u201ckhaki\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile campaigning for office, President Buhari presented himself as a \u201cborn-again democrat\u201d and, once elected, swore to abide by the Nigerian Constitution. On the contrary, most of his actions and public positions as regards individual freedoms are unmistakably those of a dictator,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe seems to act speedily only when there is a political enemy to be punished, retreating into a habitual lethargy as soon as the threat is eliminated. To many people within and without Nigeria, the Buhari of 2021 is different from the Buhari of 1984 only to the extent that the latter is older and not wearing khaki!\u201d<\/p>\n

The group said apart from the recent issue, the government has always \u201cexhibited a willingness to censor public debate, especially on social media\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proposed but defeated Social Media Bill of 2019 was an early signal of this position. In the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests of October 2020, the Minister for Information, Mr Lai Mohammed, publicly declared that social media must be \u2018regulated\u2019 in order to prevent the spread of \u2018fake news\u2019,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a sense in which Nigeria as a country is going through a long, transitional period of democratic awakening, considering that the fourth republic marks the first sustained span (of twenty-two years) of civilian rule since independence.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom this perspective, it is understandable that different aspects of society\u2013political, economic, religious, and the like\u2013come to belated awareness of its intrinsic value and significance. What appears like disorder from a purely statistical or empirical point of view could then be perceived as a civilian body politic, a system of rule of law, slowly renewing itself away from the predatory, psychological violence of military rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, as the government under President Buhari has shown, a civilian government does not automatically make for a rule of law regime or a democracy underpinned by the separation of powers marked by a just, humane, and transparent conduct of government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the actions of the current government are anything to go by, a civilian government is clearly and unceasingly reversing the gains of nearly three decades of public-spirited citizens holding the government of the day to standards of democracy, whether such a government is led by a soldier or by a civilian.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the group, \u201cthe first step toward checking this situation is to insist on the primacy of the separation of powers between the three arms of the government, and the practical checks and balances it affords.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current national assembly is alarmingly in lockstep with the executive, merely rubberstamping the latter\u2019s propositions, and for all practical purposes sitting idly by at a time of serious national emergency,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

Signatories to the statement are listed as: Abimbola Adelakun, The University of Texas at Austin; Akin Adesokan, Indiana University; Kunle Ajibade, The News, Lagos; Ebenezer Obadare, University of Kansas; Moses Ochonu, Vanderbilt University; Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University; Olufemi Vaughan, Amherst College; Jacob Olupona, Harvard University; Simeon Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University; James Yeku, University of Kansas; and Oka Obono, University of Ibadan.<\/p>\n

Others are Farooq Kperogi, Kennesaw State University; Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin; Akanmu Adebayo, Kennesaw State University; Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi, Dartmouth College at Hanover; Peyibomi Soyinka-Airewele, Ithaca College; Samuel Zalanga, Bethel University, Saint Paul, Minnesota; Ainehi Edoro-Glines, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Moj\u00fab\u00e0ol\u00fa Oluf\u00fank\u00e9 Okome, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and Rotimi Suberu, Bennington College, Vermont.<\/p>\n

The list of signatories also includes: Oyeronke Oyewumi, Stony Brook University, New York; Tade Ipadeola, The Khalam Collective, Ibadan; Saheed Aderinto, Western Carolina University; Ibrahim Abdullah, Fourah Bay College, Freetown; Asonzeh Ukah, University of Cape Town; Iruka Okeke, University of Ibadan; Jibrin Ibrahim, Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja; Niyi Afolabi, University of Texas at Austin; Chiedo Nwankwor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Cajetan Iheka, Yale University, and Nimi Wariboko, Boston University.<\/p>\n

Also listed are: Nwando Achebe, Michigan State University; Akin Ogundiran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Omolade Adunbi, University of Michigan; Rita Kiki Edozie, University of Massachusetts-Boston; Sa\u2019eed Husaini, Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja; Biko Agozino, Virginia Techs; Folu Ogundimu, Michigan State University; Funso Afolayan, University of New Hampshire, and Tola Olu Pearce, University of Missouri, Columbia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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