Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has defied the federal government’s Twitter ban in order to carry out a deactivation of his account.
Recall that government banned Twitter last Friday after the app deleted a controversial comment made by President Muhammadu Buhari, in which he made reference to the Nigerian Civil War, which many Nigerians described as distasteful.
Malami has issued a statement on Saturday, directing the prosecution of anyone still using the app after the ban.
Despite his threat, many Nigerians have been using Virtual Private Networks to access Twitter.
In a post on his verified Facebook page on Tuesday, the Attorney General posted a screenshot from the Twitter app showing his account has been deleted.
“My Twitter account deactivated,” he wrote.
However, Twitter as a social networking service doesn’t permit off-site deactivation, which means that for a Twitter account to be deactivated you have to first access the app, meaning Malami must have logged in to deactivate it.
