Twitter ban: “Malami corrupt, criminally deactivated his account” – Sowore claims

Omoyele Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has berated the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami for deactivating his Twitter handle after the Federal Government’s ban.

Malami is believed to have used the Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to access Twitter after the ban by the Federal Government to deactivate his account.

Sowore described Malami as a corrupt and incompetent lawyer for criminally deactivating his Twitter account.

Malami on Saturday after the announcement of the ban on the Microblogging site had ordered the immediate prosecution of offenders of the Federal Government ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria.

In the screenshot shared by Malami when he announced the deactivation of his account, there was a key icon showing the use of a VPN on the left side of his notification bar, indicating that Malami’s phone was connected with a VPN to access Twitter.

Reacting, Sowore accused the Minister of Justice of birthing a full fledged dictatorship.

In a post on his verified Facebook, Sowore wrote: “A message I left for Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of (In)Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN on his Facebook comment section after he criminally deactivated his Twitter account;

“A lawless, heartless, corrupt, unjust and incompetent lawyer saddled with the ministry of justice who doesn’t have an idea what it means to work for justice.

“An Attorney General that initiated a memo to birth full fledged dictatorship. Be reminded of what befell your predecessors. You won’t escape the harsh verdict of history! #RevolutionNow #BuhariMustGo”.