Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said President Buhari, by the ban, was “pushing Nigerians to the wall”.

It described the Twitter suspension as unwarranted, draconian and a slide towards a fascist regime in our country.

It also said the suspension was “a vexatious, condemnable and barbaric move to muzzle Nigerians, particularly the youths,” ostensibly to prevent them from holding the administration “accountable for its atrocities, including human right violations, patronizing of terrorists and outright suppressive acts against innocent Nigerians.”

The party’s presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, tweeted: “Hopefully, this isn’t my last tweet. #smile,”

While former Senate President Bukola Saraki said: “No sir! This should not be the response from the president of a nation with a vibrant youthful population for whom #Twitter is part of their daily lives and a source of their income and livelihood. This must be reviewed.”

Some other tweets: Dino Melaye “Naija Govt sha. Using Twitter platform to announce Twitter suspension. Na im Baba Fela dey call babanla nonsense. SDM”

Dr. Dípò Awójídé, FHEA @OgbeniDipo Does President Buhari and the federal government know how much young Nigerians make on social media platforms like Twitter daily? Does Lai Mohammed know the number of jobs being sustained by Twitter in Nigeria? What is wrong with these people?

Dalla Bona Fan @jaja_sowari Replying to @OgbeniDipo “So many inconsistencies from Jack and his twitter team. For the first time, I am with FG on this.”

‘Fisayo Soyombo “The most shameful thing about the ban of Twitter in Nigeria is not even that it was announced. It’s the realisation that this government can’t see the divisiveness and irresponsibility of that Buhari tweet, and the barefacedness with which it is going about it.”

Roviel @ObongRoviel “FG has suspended Twitter in Nigeria, if you can still tweet, that means you’re in UAR. Ko po ke”.

YourFavLawyer @jagganiyu “If Twitter is such an issue for them, why don’t they deactivate their accounts? Why are they still on Twitter? They know Crowwe is a useless app. Me I’m in UAR sha, so Twitter in Nigeria suspension no concern me.”

SERAP “BREAKING: We’re suing Nigerian authorities over their ILLEGAL indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria.

 

"Nigerians have a right to freedom of expression and access to information including online, and we plan to fight to keep it that way. @NigeriaGov, we’ll see you in court.”

@Biraphil: This is the same twitter y’all cried when they set up their headquarters in Ghana instead of Nigeria. Government would’ve locked their headquarters up for hate speech by now.