APC chieftain, Adamu Garba, asks court to ban Twitter in Nigeria

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Adamu Garba, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop Twitter International Company from operating in Nigeria.

Garba had earlier criticized the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter International and Founder its Founder, Jack Dorsey, for allegedly creating a link for donations to #EndSARS protesters in Nigeria.

In the suit brought under the fundamental rights enforcement proceeding on Tuesday, Garba is also seeking the court to compel Dorsey and Twitter to pay him the sum of $1bn in damages over the action.

In the application brought by his counsel, Abbas Ajiya, Garba also wants to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to take measures to stop Dorsey and Twitter from “further sponsoring and carrying out the EndSARS protest using force that is reasonably appropriate in the circumstance of the protest.”

Others also sought to be compelled to stop the protest are: the AttorneyGeneral of the Federation, the National Security Adviser; the InspectorGeneral of Police; the

Director-General of the Department of State Services and the Commandant General of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps.

Garba described the mode of the sponsorship and protest of the #EndSARS as “illegal and a violation of his fundamental right to liberty, dignity of human person, freedom of movement and economic right guaranteed and protected under sections 34(1), 35(1), 41(1) and 43 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

No date has been fixed for hearing.