The Nigerian government has explained how it negotiated with Twitter to lift the suspension it placed on the operation of the micro-blogging platform in June 2021 after it removed a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari’s account.
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture made the explanation in reaction to claims by a former staff of the platform Twitter staff that Twitter
did not negotiate with the Nigerian Government in the wake of its suspension in the country.
The Minister spoke at the commencement of the 13th edition of the ‘PMB Administration Scorecard Series (2015-2023)’, featuring the Minister of Women Affairs on Monday.
However, speaking before the commencement of Monday edition, Mohammed reacted the allegation credited to a former Twitter staff that Twitter did not negotiate with the Nigerian Government in the wake of the suspension of the microblogging site, describing the claim as “ludicrous that one could just have ignored it.”
However, the Minister who said he decided to respond to the claim since it has been making the rounds online maintained there was a long-drawn negotiation between the Nigerian government at the micro blogging site following the suspension of the platform on June 4th 2021.
He said the negotiation was at the instance of Twitter.
