Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has ignored the Federal Government’s Twitter ban, by tweeting to condemnation the action.
“The ban on Twitter is not only illegal but it is also an ill-advised move to divert the attention of Nigerians from the FG’s failure to tackle insecurity in parts of the country”, Ortom wrote in a tweet posted 8 June.
“It amounts to suppression of fundamental human rights and gagging of social media,” he added.
Ortom, a former APC governor switched to the PDP to contest the 2019 election.
Recall that Ortom has been a constant critic of President Buhari and the fearal government over the spate of insecurity in the country, particularly in Benue.
By defying the Twitter suspension, Ortom assumed no one could prosecute him as he enjoys immunity.
The federal government announced a suspension of Twitter last week Friday, few days after the micro-blogging platform deleted Buhari’s ‘violent’ tweets.
