Saturday, 5 June 2021

This seems like a reasonable decision - Portuguese politician, Bruno Maçães, reacts to FG's Twitter suspension

Portuguese politician, Bruno Maçães, is of the opinion that the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria is a reasonable decision. Reacting to the decision via his Twitter handle, he wrote ''This seems like a reasonable decision. No sovereign country should be inclined to place Twitter above the head of state or head of government. It was perhaps tolerable for a US internet platform to determine what can or cannot be said by the US president, but how did anyone ever think the model could apply globally?'' he wrote This seems like a reasonable decision - Portuguese politician, Bruno Maçaes, reacts to FG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *COMMENT*: This guy would instantly be hated by anti Buhari hordes and troublemakers. Whoever has a contrary opinion to their thoughts is usually regarded as the enemy. UGM kills innocent people including northerners under the guise of secessionist struggles and their admirers clap loudly and call them heroes. An Igbo guy residing in Kano was kidnapped by bandits yesterday and this same people are crying for revenge. Isn't this hypocrisy in technicolor? Whoever kills others shouldn't be afraid of the sword. What exactly did Buhari say that's making a lot of people to convulse? He reminded anarchists burning public buildings and setting dangerous prisoners free to not forget that this type of lawlessness was the cause of the civil war in 1967. History is a teacher; it brings back into human memory those things we've chosen to forget. He was part of the federal soldiers who fought for 30 months to keep the Nigerian nation indissoluble and witnessed horrendous human and material wastes. Those who want war to actualize their Biafran and Oduduwa republics today weren't even born when Buhari was head of state between 1983-1985. If you haven't experienced war, it's very normal to think it's a walk in the park. Buhari may be hated for breathing by IPOB and their followers but he's right to sound a note of warning to warmongers looking to destroy this beautiful and blessed nation for their own political ambitions. Twitter is assuming a dangerous power that's superceding the sovereignty of independent nations. It's a tool of misbehavior for the misfits and the malcontents. It promotes alternative lifestyles that are inimical to societal harmony. It allowed IPOB an unfettered access to propagate falsehoods on its app. Every serious leader would be alarmed at these excesses that could damage us as a nation. Twitter needs to be checked once in a while and be reminded that it exists on the goodwill and exigencies of its users. It's simply an app used by all sorts of propagandists and influencers to keep their motives alive and feel good about themselves. Buhari did nothing wrong in banning it especially now that fake news peddlers, mischievous bedroom journalists, anarchists and secessionists are on the prowl. We all need to calm down and take a deep breath from the onslaughts of real and imaginary bad news. And soon enough, we'd all realize that it's a miniscule part of our individual existences. It's just a bloody app for crying out loud.

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