The official Twitter page of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo appeared to have disappeared with its over two million followers on Friday.
Mr Osinbajo has used his “@ProfOsinbajo” screename on the micro-blogging platform to publicise his activities since he was named as the running mate to then-candidate Muhammadu Buhari in late 2014.
The account has amassed at least 2.1 million followers as of earlier this week, which made its disappearance easily noticeable amongst a multitude of other newsmakers on Twitter.
As of Saturday morning, “@ProfOsinbajo” could no longer be reached on Twitter. Its history of 2,399 tweets and 488 likes had also become inaccessible on Twitter.
An archive of the handle showed the last activity (a retweet) on it was on August 3.
Mr Osinbajo last tweeted himself on July 28, when he condoled with the families of slain journalist Precious Owolabi following a visit to his family.
It was not immediately clear when the account stopped loading, but there were indications it was around midnight on Friday.
Whether Twitter suspended or deleted the account or Mr Osinbajo took it offline by himself remained unclear as of Saturday morning.
A spokesperson for Mr Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, did not return requests seeking clarification from PREMIUM TIMES.
Many online users claimed it was related to the tradermoni post he tweeted about in Bayelsa, claiming it is a vote-buying means and it is corrupt. Many Nigerians might have reported the account for this reason thereby leading to it’s suspension.
I learnt Prof Yemi Osinbajo’s Twitter handle has been experiencing some vicissitudes of late. From suspension to reversion to unverified, over accusation of vote buying through TraderMoni. @anticorruption 🤔
— SEGA L'éveilleur® (@segalink) August 10, 2019
