:BUHARI EYES SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP FOR 2019

HEALTH SAGA:BUHARI EYES SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP FOR 2019

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU

[WORLD EXCLUSIVE]

  

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND SENATOR IBIKUNLE AMOSUN ARE LIKE SIAMESE TWINS IN REAL LIFE SITUATION

A whiff of what may happen very soon in NIgeria except if the Emperor of The Federal Republic of Nigeria is told that he actually does not have some powers by The National Assembly  then the Nigerian nation may descend into a state of total anomie or chaos because of intense power play with 2019 in  the back ground.

Checks By the News office Desk of Paedia Express MUltimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria shows that close allies of President Muhammadu Buhari while trying to hold on to power at all cost irrespective of his ill health would appear to have encouraged him to go ahead and start a regime of social media censorship in a very clear attempt at turning Nigerian into a balkanised state .

This reporter spotted one them,Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state saying in The Punch Newspapers dated 20th July,2017 on page 13 that it will be worthwhile for the Federal government to establish an agency to sieve people's opinions  on social media thus fuelling suggestions of an attempt to return Nigeria to the dark ages when the Neanderthal reigned  supreme.

The politician explained that he was worried at the way people used the platform for an opportunity to attack individuals and corporations but did not express worry at the same event he made the remarks about the stealing of the people 's common wealth neither did Amosun seems to be in any way bothered at the event in his speech at the perennial damage done to the psyche of the average Nigerian the endless looting of her resources by its elected officials which then formed the fulcrum of the critisms on the social media platforms he bitterly complaint about even while not giving specific examples.

However in the same report ,Professor Ibidapo Obe ,Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos,Nigeria in his own accounts while praising the social media for its contributions to every society where it operates noted that there could be no form of censorship that can stop the current wave of  media revolution until there was a thing better than the social media.

It would appear that Governor Ibikunle Amosun and President Buhari first struck  the good and great chord of friendship while the Daura born statesman held sway as the helmsman at the Petroleum TRsut Fund [P.T.F.]during the gory days of Abacha's gulag with the former said to have been great friends with the Late Barrister Ibrahim Abacha who died in still very unclear situations in a plane crash.

Some say it was this ties more than other reason with the Abacha's that made Governor Amosun to tap into the Aladdin magical lamp which shot him up financially though full details about this are quite sketchy as at press time.

The two jolly good friends soon found the All Nigeria  Peoples Party [A.N.P.P.]as a good ship to sail on as the present democracy came calling on Nigerians in 1999.

Sources say Buhari ,anytime he came to the South West in Nigeria on political crusades took time to hang out with his great friend  with his retinue of aides at Amosun's Ajisafe Street residence at the Government Reservation Area in IKeja,Lagos,Nigeria .

Those knowledgeable of such visits say The President was a man who apart from been deeply religious and decent was very humble to a fault as he will choose to seat on a large sized mat with private aides as they eat his favorite delicacy:fish and Semovita.

To prove that this particular account is not some fairy tale ,when one of the children of Governor Ibikunle Amosun got married recently ,President Buhari's children led by his son,Alhaji Yusuf amongst others represented the first family in Abeokuta, Ogun state.

Another account said that Buhari also had an excellent relationship with Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim and the latter was fond coming to pick him in very posh vehicles until one day when the former said that he was not too comfortable with too much display of opulence and this made the Mufti-Billionaire tycoon turned politician to change his style as at then  .

One of the fundamental platforms which every democracies stand upon at all levels globally is freedom of speech and analysts now think that Governor Amosun 's statement should  be taken very seriously in light of his close association with President Buhari.

The position of the law as it concerns deformation of character,libel,slander,forgery and any other anti-social behavior is very clear and a lot of people have even been arrested  to face the law on account of their social media postings which they cannot defend hence, Governor Amosun's opinion analysts believe is quite unfortunate.

The News office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria has being having a torrid time via cold war with The Nigerian Presidency over its spate of information churned out in recent times on Buhari's health and national security even if they will not admit this publicly aside from problems from the Nigerian public especially on the micro-blogging site: Facebook.

COPIED TO THE FOLLOWING MEDIA PUBLICS:
1]Amnesty International

2]International Federation of Human Rights

3]Human Rights Watch

4]Article 19

5]Committee to Protect Journalists

6]Index on Censorship

7]International Federation of Journalists

8]World Association of Newspapers

9]International Pen

10]International Press Institute

11]Reporters Without Borders

12]World Press Freedom Committee

13]United Nations  office for Liaison with NGOs

14]United Nations Human Rights Centre

15]The International Committee of the

 Red Cross and Red Crescent

16]Office of the United Nations

 High Commissioner for Refugees

17]Human Rights Internet.

18]International Service for Human Rights

19]UNESCO-IPDC[International Programme

 for the Development of Communications]