Under Social Media Pressure, GEJ Withdraws Complaint Against Twitter Parody

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

Following social media pressure President Goodluck Jonathan has written the police to withdraw the complaint leveled against, Olusola Babatunde, a 500 level student of the Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso who parodied him on twitter.

 Upon the letter, the student was on Tuesday released after spending 82 days in police custody.
Olusola’s action did not breach any policy of the social media company, Twitter as Twitter allows users to create parody accounts but with such account must bear the disclaimer indicating parody.

Olusola, speaking with the Punch newspaper, in an exclusive interview, immediately after his release, on Tuesday, said he wore the same clothes during his 82 days in detention and was only allowed to wash every four days.

He noted that he was in the cell with the a Chinese miner who tested positive for COVID-19.

In his words, “The funny thing is that I even tweeted good things about Goodluck Jonathan a few weeks before my arrest. I said Jonathan’s administration was better than that of the current President. So, I was shocked, but this is Nigeria.

“There was no social distancing. I guess the people in the cells are exceptional. It is like COVID-19 doesn’t infect them and this is despite the fact that new suspects are brought in everyday without testing.

“However, we had an incident just once. There was a Chinese man who was a gold miner who fell ill. He was taken to a hospital and tested positive for COVID-19; so, he was hurriedly released.

“He was in the Force Intelligence Bureau Department. So, only the suspects in that cell were tested. We were all at risk of getting infected with COVID-19.”

Meanwhile, Jonathan has written to the court to withdraw the case against Olusola.

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