Ovation Publisher and former Presidential candidate, Chief Dele Momodu
has said that any plan to gag social media will fail, saying Nigerians
are resilient people and will not succumb to such threat.
Speaking during his keynote address, “The Power of Social Media,”
at the City People Social Media Awards held on Sunday in Lagos, Momodu
said Nigerians survived the move by erstwhile dictator, Gen Sani
Abacha’s plan to gag the citizens, hence attempt by government of the
day to ban social MEDIA WILL FAIL.
“Any attempt to gag us
will fail. It will never happen. Abacha tried and failed. Any attempt by
any government to stop social media will fail. It is not about protests
in the streets, or security agents going after you. Some of us fled
this country during Abacha. I was involved with Freedom Radio, sometimes
we had to broadcast using the phone. But with the social media, from
your room, you can talk to millions of people and no one can stop you.”
The
Ovation publisher also said that after the magic of electricity and
telephone, the social media is the greatest invention by man. On how he
became a social media influence, he said the journey started in 2010
with Facebook.
‘’I started using Social media in 2010,
Facebook was the most common one then, When I got on Twitter not long
after, I actually asked people to manage my account. I just past
instruction that I want an announcement on the micro-blogging platform
and it is carried out.
‘’But by January 2012, during the
fuel subsidy protests, I realised how powerful the 140 character on
Twitter has when I decided to reach out to a lot of people as I was the
only one who carried a banner and protested in London, US, Ghana and
Nigeria. I had about 13, 000 followers when I took over the management
of the Twitter account; since then I have been addicted.
“The
power of the social media is huge; you can reach millions in seconds.
We are witnesses’ to what the change agents of the APC were able to do
with the candidature of President Buhari,” he said. He urged youth
not to underestimate the power inherent in new media considering the
reach influence people from the corner of one’s bedroom.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/social-media-nobody-can-gag-nigerians-dele-momodu/
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