I Will Tamper With Press Freedom – Says Buhari

Recently, the federal government of Nigeria under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari suspended the operation ofTwitter in Nigeria.Following the suspension of the widely used social media platform, the Federal Government is also pushing for the amendment of the Nigeria Press Council Act and the National Broadcasting Commission Act in the National Assembly to ‘regulate’ the press.

Both military and civilian governments that we’ve had in the past tried to muzzle the freedom of the press and the press has always fought valiantly.

I was one of three persons – the others were Dele Giwa and Yakubu Mohammed – who interviewed Major General Muhammadu Buhari on February 6, 1984, andwe were shocked when the man said, ‘I will tamper with press freedom.

): ‘Let’s revive this thing’ and General Abubakar said we should look at it.

The veteran journalist continued:“When we came out of the interview from Dodan Barracks, Dele Giwa said, ‘We are all in trouble’.

There is nothing in terms of freedom of democracy that we can borrow from China because we’ve had our China here – many years of military rule, that was China and we fought the military to a standstill.

Ekpu said:“The people who are doing these have never followed the history of the Nigerian Press from pre-colonial days up till now.

tried it, the first one we shut it down, the second one, they reviewed it, we were managing it, we made some input and we said, ‘Okay, it was alright’.

“I don’t know whether they know the history of the press council..

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