Aisha Buhari deactivates Twitter account

THE wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, last night, deactivated her Twitter account hours after the Federal Government announced the suspension of the micro-blogging site.

“I will be deactivating my Twitter account for now. Long live Federal public of Nigeria,” she tweeted at 11:59pm.

Minutes later, the account, which had over one million followers as of June 4, was no longer available on the social media platform.

However, the account of President Muhammadu Buhari, @MBuhari, was still active as of the time.

Aisha Buhari, who is known for her fierce criticisms of her husband’s government, had in the past made some of her dissatisfaction known via Twitter.

Recall that Twitter had deleted a post by Buhari on Tuesday.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who had accused Twitter of double standards, announced the suspension of the microblogging site on Friday, citing the “persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence”.