BEVERLY HILLS, April 26, (THEWILL) – Micro-blogging site, Twitter, has deleted the tweets by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, where he disclosed the chat between him and popular musician, Eedris Abdulkareem.
According to Twitter, the tweets had the phone number of the musician and were deleted because the Minister ‘violated the rules’ of the site.
THEWILL had earlier reported that Keyamo had used the micro-blogging platform to call out the musician over his recently released song, “Jaja Jaga Reloaded” saying that the song was targeted at blackmailing him.
Keyamo stated that Abdulkareem, who is displaying opposition to President Muhammadu Buhari once pleaded to be part of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, which he headed in 2018.
Keyamo said, “In 2018, when I was named the Director of Strategic Communications for Buhari Campaign Organisation, Eedris waxed a song in support of Buhari and wanted to join us, albeit for a fee. He then made desperate efforts to see me through text messages from his phone no…”
The tweet has since been deleted by Twitter. Twitter wrote in a brief post, “This tweet violated the Twitter Rules.” However, the social media company did not explicitly disclose the rules that were violated.
Meanwhile, in a blog post, the company stated the process of removing a tweet considered to have violated its rules.
“When we determine that a Tweet violated the Twitter Rules, we require the violator to remove it before they can tweet again. We send an email notification to the violator identifying the tweet(s) in violation and which policies have been violated.
“They will then need to go through the process of removing the violating tweet or appealing our review if they believe we made an error,” it wrote.
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