According to former presidential media aide, Doyin Okupe,
ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, as a leader and a person, is perhaps the
most abused in terms of hate speech in the history of this country.
Doyin Okupe said this when he spoke at the Vanguard Conference Hall
which held recently.
"I still say that Jonathan, as one person and as a leader of a
country is perhaps, the most abused in terms of hate speech in the
history of this country. Now, your question is extremely very pertinent.
If somebody has gone through it and nothing happened, do we now have a
justification to want to stop it? Yes, we do. I will support this
administration with the idea that this type of thing should not be
allowed to be visited. The current president is also taking a share of
his own hate speech, but we must stop it somewhere. There is no need to
allow this thing to fester on more than it has gone so far. I agree that
there is a justification for the law and that we need to look into the
situation properly and a proper law should be enacted that can control
what we say and how we say them, especially on the social media. There
is an absolute need for sanity because what goes on in the social media
is pathetic, it is unthinkable. When I see a young man of 24 years old
saying that Wole Soyinka is a fool, that may not exactly be hate speech,
but it is intolerable. Today, I am not in government but there are
people in government but being in government should not expose you to
all sorts of assault simply because you are Minister of Information,
President or Vice President. It should not make you be a target for
unreasonable assault and attack. You cannot protect or defend yourself,
and there are no sanctions for those who do those things. Therefore, for
me, I will support this administration in this idea of trying to find a
law to create sanity in the social media and also to prevent reckless
statements that can incite or dehumanise people for no other reason
except that they are in government offices" he said
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