Twitter Apologizes, Re-opens Aisha Yesufu Locked Account

Aisha Yesufu, a co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign on Thursday had her Twitter account , ‘temporarily restricted’ for couple of hours.

The temporal restriction of her account gave birth to the reactions from several Nigerians who took to their twitter account to react to the development urging Twitter to restore Yesufu’s account.

Oby Ezekwesili, a former minister of education and also BBOG co-founder, also tweeted in support of Yesufu.

“She does not deserve to be shut down,” Ezekwesili said.

See more tweets with reactions to the restrictions below…

This is unjust @Twitter and every sensible Nigerian would tell you so. @AishaYesufu is the last person whose Voice should be shut down by Twitter. Do not unwittingly empower those who detest Citizens’ Voice that holds a government @NigeriaGov accountable. That’s all Aisha does. pic.twitter.com/AkrvyxWFOc
— Oby Ezekwesili (@obyezeks) August 29, 2019

@Twitter
WHO IS AFRAID OF THE TRUTH?
Who is afraid of @AishaYesufu?
WHO IS AFRAID OF ACTIVE CITIZENS?
Who is afraid of @AishaYesufu?
WHO IS AFRAID OF ACCOUNTABILITY?
Who is afraid of @AishaYesufu?
WHO IS AFRAID OF TRANSPARENCY?
WHO FEARS THE TRUTH?
Mere Truth? pic.twitter.com/kHnd25I1CS
— Florence Ozor™ (@FlorenceOzor) August 29, 2019

Twitter, however expained in a mail sent to Yesufu; that it restricted the account after its automated systems flagged a series of tweets from Yesufu’s account as spam.

“We apologise for the mixup, and hope to see back on Twitter,” Twitter wrote to Yesufu.

Yesufu, a vocal critic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, had been posting a series of tweets criticising the government.

“That I voted for the President in 2015 is not a reason I should not criticise the President,” she wrote. “It shouldn’t not be about personal inclination! It’s about justice!”

Yesufu haven accepted the apologies of Twitter in a tweet, also acknowledged the unlocking of her Twitter account

See tweets below:

Thank you everyone for your voices. I have gotten a mail from @Twitterand I am back. I will continue to be a voice. My voice is not for myself alone but for so many others who unfortunately did not get that education that so many of us take for granted to have a voice.
THANK YOU pic.twitter.com/uZ4g8TXZul
— Aisha Yesufu (@AishaYesufu) August 29, 2019