The media company said this violated its bad policy, which led to its account being suspended for 12 hours.
Twitter has deleted a post by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari threatening to punish him for defending himself in an area where government buildings have been criticized.
This happened on Wednesday as a Buhari tweet, referring to the civil war in the southeastern Biafra region, violating the bad policies of the TV industry, which led to his account being suspended for 12 hours.
The two-and-a-half-year conflict began in 1967 and left more than a million people dead in war, disease and famine.
Buhari, who served in the war against religious extremists and was a Nigerian military commander in the 1980s, wrote on Tuesday that most of the people committing atrocities today were too young to remember the death and destruction of the civil war.
“Those of us who have been in the field for 30 months, who have gone to war, we will treat them in a language they understand,” he warned in a deleted tweet.
Nigeria has seen a spate of arson attacks on polling stations and police stations in recent weeks, particularly in the southeast. Officials were also killed.
Officials say the banned Indigenous Peoples of India (IPOB) group is what police call its Eastern Security Network. IPOB has repeatedly denied involvement.
Some social media users criticized Buhari’s tweet before it was removed, accusing him of wanting Igbo people from the largest ethnic group in the southeast. IPOB is important in the region and its efforts to revive the idea on Biafra have prompted security agencies to take action in recent years.
Nigerian Information Minister Lai Mohammed ignored Twitter’s actions, saying Buhari had the right to report the harassment and violence perpetrated by the banned organization.
“Twitter can have its own rules, not a national law,” he told reporters. “If a President anywhere in the world feels angry and concerned about what has happened, he has the right to say it.”
In a recent incident in early May, the military men killed At least seven Nigerian police officers in the oil south of Rivers during a security crackdown in the region. In June, the Rivers government banned people from crossing its borders at night to prevent the killing of police, security guards, government guards and the military.
Security protests are also taking place in the north of the country where, since December, terrorists have captured more than 700 people in schools and militants have killed many soldiers and civilians.
