PDP Relaunches New Twitter Handle,Sacks Deji Adeyanju Over Unauthourized Tweets

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has disowned one Deji Adeyanju as its Director of New Media, as the party launched a new twitter handle for effective control of its affairs.This is contained in statement signed by Chinwe Nnorom, Head of PDP Publicity Unit, on Monday in Abuja.The statement said that the Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the party, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, had directed the immediate closure of the party’s official twitter handle “@pdpnigeria“ and re-launched a new one.It said that the decision became necessary due to the frequent unauthorized, and at most times, embarrassing tweets that emanated from the handle tweeted by the handlers claiming to represent the PDP.It recalled that the party had in the past announced the shutdown of the Handle on two occasions when hackers manipulated it to embarrass the party.“Following these developments, the party hereby informs all its members, supporters, friends, the media and general public to ignore and disregard any tweet from the Handle @pdpnigeria forthwith.“In view of the above, the party has immediately re-launched a new Handle, @officialpdpnig to form part of the social media platform of our great party for ease of communication, administration and control,’’ the statement said.