Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, has broken his silence on the suspension of micro blogging and social network platform – Twitter – by the Federal government, saying Nigeria and Twitter need each other.
He called for amicable resolution of the feud with Twitter.
Lawan bared his mind at a briefing in Abuja to mark the second anniversary of the 9th Senate.
He said: “Our belief is that Nigeria needs Twitter just as Twitter needs Nigeria.
“Our expectation is that we will be able to resolve this issue.
” But beyond that, I am optimistic and I believe that all of us would have learnt our lessons. ”
He gave assurance that the nation would overcome its security challenges.
He added:” I believe this is the worst level we could get to. We cannot go beyond this level, it could only be better.
“I believe we are going to gave a reversal of this situation very soon. We shouldn’t despair, we shouldn’t be despondent. We should have hope and optimism that our situation will be better.”