Senate President Ahmad Lawan has broken his silence on suspension of micro blogging and social network platform Twitter by the Federal Government.
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He said Nigeria and Twitter need each other.
He called for amicable resolution of the feud with Twitter.
Lawan bared his mind at a briefing in Abuja to mark the second anniversary of the 9th Senate.
He said: “Our belief is that Nigeria needs Twitter just as Twitter needs Nigeria.
“Our expectation is that we will be able to resolve this issue.
” But beyond that, I am optimistic and I believe that all of us would have learnt our lessons. ”
He gave assurance that the nation would overcome its security challenges.
He added:” I believe this is the worst level we could get to. We cannot go beyond this level, it could only be better.
“i believe we are going to gave a reversal of this situation very soon. We shouldn’t despair, we shouldn’t be despondent. We should have hope and optimism that our situation will be better.”
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, announced the suspension of the social media platform a week ago.
The minister accused Twitter of “threatening the existence of Nigeria”.
The action of the government came after the microblogging platform took down a controversial tweet of President Muhammadu Buhari.
When the national assembly resumed sitting on Tuesday, the senate, unlike the house of representatives, kept mum over the ban.
At the lower legislative chamber, the information minister was summoned over the ban, but its members disagreed over a prayer asking the government to reverse the ban immediately.
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