The special assistant to president Buhari on Digital/New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi, has frowned at the idea of asking Nigerian youths to get there permanent voters cards(PVC), just to evict old people from politics. In a blunt tweet on Thursday, Ogunlesi described the idea as absurd.
“I find the idea of asking young people to get PVCs, JUST SO they can wield it as power to evict “old” people from politics—I find it quite absurd. You’re assuming: 1. All young people must vote for the same reasons 2. Young is default better than old in politics. Nonsense.” Ogunlesi tweeted.
Tolu Ogunlesi, The Witnessngr recalls, incurred the wrath of not a few Nigerian youths last October, after he described the Nigerians government ban of Twitter in June, as a win-win situation for the country and the micro blogging site.
“The ban is a win-win for Twitter and the government of Nigeria; that’s the view I get from the negotiations and I am happy about that. We are indeed very close to a resolution and you know one thing I must say, is that the media seems to often paint a picture of some sort of adversarial negotiation or contest of sorts, but it has been a very amicable, very positive conversation. ” he said in an interview with cable news giant, CNN.
The Nigerian government had, in June, suspended the operations of Twitter indefinitely over “persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence”.
The ban was announced two days after Twitter deleted Buhari’s tweet wherein he threatened to treat Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand”.