The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, midnight Friday deactivated her account on Twitter.
She announced a few seconds before midnight that she would deactivate her account.
“I will be deactivating my Twitter account for now. Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria,” she tweeted at 11:59pm on Friday.
Minutes after announcement, the account, which had one million followers as of June 4, was no longer available on the social media platform.
The development came hours after the federal government announced that it had suspended the operations of Twitter “idefiantely” in the country.
The announcement came days after Twitter deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet, in which he made a reference to Nigeria’s civil war of 1967 and its implications, in reference to the ongoing confrontation between the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and security agencies, which led to killings in the South-East.
The federal government had accused Twitter of double standards, claiming that the social media giant had conveniently ignored inciting tweets by Nnamdi Kanu and his cohorts.
