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TWITTER: Is Okonjo-Iweala Supporting IPOB?

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;2 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">The Director of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wto&period;org&sol;">World Trade Organisation<&sol;a> &lpar;WTO&rpar;&comma; Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is also a member Board of Directors at Twitter has been accused of been silent over the activities of Twitter against the Nigerian state&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"RcdIkMiJ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Adamu Garba&comma; the CEO IPI Solutions Nigeria Limited made the allegation in an interview with Channels TV in Abuja&comma; few hours after the suspension of Twitter activities in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"Gvk2Wiw1" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the current Director of WTO and a member Board of Directors at Twitter&comma; is she part of the instigators of Twitter&quest; Why isn&&num;8217&semi;t there a single tweet&comma; and why won&&num;8217&semi;t she call Twitter to order when they are talking against Nigeria&quest; Is she supporting the Indigenous People of Biafra &lpar;IPOB&rpar;&quest;&&num;8221&semi; Asked Adamu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said these are necessary questions to ask at the moment&comma; because the country cannot have a social media platform making huge amount of profit from over 40 million Nigerians&comma; yet supporting contents against Nigerians and Nigeria interest&period; He lamented how despite these massive users from Nigeria&comma; the company still decided to have its Africa office in Ghana &lpar;with less than 10 million users&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It could be recalled that Nigerian government blocked Twitter after the social media site removed on Wednesday the Nigeria President &commat;MBuhari&&num;8217&semi;s tweet threatening the IPOB secessionists from South East Nigeria who have been attacking government institutions&comma; burning public and private properties for weeks now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;2 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;2 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"64hLBSUJ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Those of us in the fields for 30 months&comma; who went through the war&comma; will treat them in the language they understand&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Buhari warned in the tweet that was taken down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The social media site said Buhari&&num;8217&semi;s tweet violated its &&num;8220&semi;abusive behaviour&&num;8221&semi; policy leading to a 12-hour suspension of his account&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reacting to this&comma; Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s Information Minister Lai Mohammed was dismissive of Twitter&&num;8217&semi;s action&comma; saying Buhari had every right to express dismay at violence by a banned organisation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Twitter may have its own rules&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not the universal rule&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he told reporters&period; &&num;8220&semi;If Mr&period; President anywhere in the world feels very bad and concerned about a situation&comma; he is free to express such views&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the 19th of July 2018 Twitter CEO&comma; Jack Dorsey announced the addition of the Harvard-educated economist and ex-Nigerian Finance Minister Okonjo-Iweala to Twitter&&num;8217&semi;s Board of Directors&period; Critics asked why Okonjo-Iweala&comma; for as from 2011 when she joined the social site to the time of her appointment&comma; she had around 860&comma;000 Twitter followers&comma; slightly above 20&comma;000 tweets&comma; and hardly engages on the platform&period; So she wasn&&num;8217&semi;t &&num;8220&semi;a social person&comma;&&num;8221&semi; but&comma; Jack stated explicitly that board members do not have to be active on the site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2021&sol;06&sol;05&sol;twitter-banfg-infringes-on-the-right-of-millions-citad&sol;">Twitter Ban&colon;FG Infringes On The Right Of Millions -CITAD<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If you study Twitter and their mode of operation carefully from the last two years&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Adamu&comma; &&num;8220&semi;you will see that they have been more of anti-Nigeria force&comma; pro-destruction of Nigeria than actually a platform that&&num;8217&semi;s suppose to advocate freedom of expression of Nigerians&period;&&num;8221&semi; To back up his claim&comma; Adamu said he cannot find the use of vile words in Buhari&&num;8217&semi;s tweet compared to &&num;8220&semi;that criminal&comma; Nnamdi Kanu&comma;&&num;8221&semi; leader of the IPOB residing in the UK&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The former Nigeria presidential aspirant Adamu Garba had in late last year taken to court Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for supporting the &num;EndSARS protests&comma; &&num;8220&semi;because I noticed exactly what these guys were trying to do is to break this country&comma; amplifying fake news and rise lot of tension in the state&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he explained in the interview&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;2 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; 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