Popular microblogging platform, Twitter, has, on Wednesday, deleted the controversial tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari, wherein he issued a threat vowing to treat Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand.”
Buhari’s statement on Tuesday, via Twitter, followed the unrest that that has greeted the southeastern part of Nigeria recently.
He further said that attacks on facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), would not stop 2023 or any election.
Twitter, in a swift move, deleted the message on Wednesday, following widespread condemnation of the tweet by Nigerians home and abroad.
The Social media network claimed PMB’s tweet was deleted because the post violated its rules.
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His words:
I receive daily security reports on the attacks on critical national infrastructure, and it is very clear that those behind them want this administration to fail. Whoever wants the destruction of the system will soon have the shock of their lives. We’ve given them enough time.
Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.
I have assured INEC that we will make available to them everything they need to operate efficiently, so that no one will say we don’t want to go, or that we want a third term. There will be no excuse for failure. We will meet all of INEC’s demands.
In the area of security, we have changed the Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General, and we are demanding that they rise fully to the challenges confronting us. There must be zero tolerance for all those those bent on destroying our country by promoting crime and insurrection!
Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.
