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<\/p>\nNigeria\u2019s Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, said the federal government is working on regulating social media.<\/p>\n
In a statement sent to DAILY POST on Wednesday, Giwa noted that criticism is a price of leadership and any leader who does not want to be criticized cannot lead successfully.<\/p>\n
He specifically reminded president Buhari that he came to power in 2015 through propaganda and criticisms on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t plan to regulate the powerful tool that brought you to power in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cHas he forgotten so soon that social media played a prominent role in electing him into the office in 2015?<\/p>\n
\u201cThey first tried it through a Senator representing Kebbi South Senatorial District, Bala ibn Na\u2019 Allah but didn\u2019t work. I can tell you that their plan won\u2019t stand.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf not social media, this government would have caged the people. Where would they start from?<\/p>\n
\u201cIn America, people criticize Trump on a daily basis without intimidation. A good leader admits all blame and looking for ways to make the people smile,\u201d said Giwa.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Presiding Pastor of the Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Gospel Church, Adewale Giwa, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari government\u2019s plans to regulate the use of social media in Nigeria. Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, said the federal government is working on regulating social media. In a statement sent to DAILY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,2677],"tags":[2658,41,1794],"class_list":["post-164241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-religious","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}