After exposing Bola Tinubu’s Guinean citizenship, Twitter locks David Hundeyin’s account

Twitter has disabled the account of independent journalist David Hundeyin for revealing President-elect Bola Tinubu’s Guinean passport, Peoples Gazette has realized, in line with Saharareporters. Continue Reading…

Mr Hundeyin sparked a frenzy amongst Nigerian web customers on Saturday evening when he posted images of a Guinean diplomatic passport with the phrases “Bola Ahmed Tinubu” and his {photograph} on Twitter.

Mr Tinubu’s followers have been outraged by the disclosure and swamped the tweet with privateness complaints, prompting Twitter’s computerized system to flag the merchandise for deletion.

The journalist’s account was additionally suspended for breaking Twitter’s prohibition on private figuring out data.

By portraying the tweet as disclosing Mr Tinubu’s private particulars, supporters of the president-elect could have unwittingly revealed that the passport belonged to him.

The journalist said that he had contacted Twitter to protest the ban, arguing that Mr Tinubu’s Guinean citizenship was of national and public curiosity. He was unsure, although, when the suspension could be eliminated.

Mr Hundeyin stated he launched a paper containing details about a public determine, the president-elect of Africa’s biggest economic system, because it was of basic public curiosity.

“After posting proof of @officialABAT’s undisclosed twin citizenship and perjurous INEC EC9 declaration, West Africa Weekly founder @DavidHundeyin’s Twitter account has been maliciously reported for “posting personal data” and is quickly locked,” stated @WestAfricaWeek, Mr Hundeyin’s digital publication.

“It’s possible you’ll not publish or put up different folks’s personal data with out their specific authorisation and permission,” Twitter stated in an e mail to Mr Hundeyin within the early hours of Monday.

The passport raised additional worries and referred to as into doubt Mr Tinubu’s capability to be president, on condition that Part 137 of the Structure bars anyone who “has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a rustic aside from Nigeria” from being president.

One other supply of fear was Mr Tinubu’s perjury cost, specifically if there could be penalties for making a false declaration beneath oath on the EC-9 form, wherein the president-elect lied about his second acquired Guinean citizenship. Continue Reading…