Politics

Tinubu: Time magazine official locks Twitter account over threats from Obi’s supporters

Time magazine official, Astha Rajvanshi, on Friday, April 14, locked her Twitter account following attacks on her by a cross-section of Nigerians suspected to be supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, fondly called Obidients.

Rajvanshi, with the Twitter account @astharajvanshi, wrote the citation of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, in the magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023.

Tinubu had been listed among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023.

The magazine, while selecting the President-elect, said winning an election in Africa’s most populous country is no easy feat.

In the Time magazine report, Rajvanshi also described Tinubu as a “longtime political power broker”, who has had nearly two decades to prepare for the February 25, 2023, presidential election.

The writer stated that the former governor of Lagos State now faces “a litany of crises in a fractured nation, including deep-rooted corruption, religious insurgencies, and shortages of cash, fuel, and power in a crumbling economy.”

Reacting to the report, Obi’s supporters accused Rajvanshi of laundering the image of Tinubu, while some others called her “the promoter of a man that rendered families hopeless due to heroin trafficking”.

The writer however locked her Twitter account over the attacks, while the battering continued on her Facebook and Instagram pages.

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, on his Twitter account, said Rajvashi locked her account over the unpleasant remarks Obidients made on her page.

“Simply for listing Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as being amongst the top 100 most powerful people in the world, TIME magazine’s Astha has had to lock her Twitter account because of the hate speech and trolling that the followers of Peter Obi have subjected her to,” Fani-Kayode said.

The Star