“Idan” has landed, says Tinubu as he announces presence on Meta social media platform, Threads

“Persecondnews reports that Idan in Yoruba means magic, supernatural, exceptional and wonder”

President Bola Tinubu has launched himself on the trending social media platform and Twitter rival, Threads, calling himself “Idan”.

In his first post on Threads, Tinubu wrote, “My fellow Tailors, Idan, has landed.”

Persecondnews reports that Idan in Yoruba means magic, supernatural, exceptional and wonder.

The hashtag ‘Idan’ is the latest Nigerian street slang that has been trending on social media for some days now.

The word has now become a trending way of expressing admiration and respect for influential and wealthy individuals in Nigerian culture.

So far, Threads has recorded over 10 million sign ups after its launch.

Thread, owned by Meta and founded by Mark Zuckerber, was launched after new strict measures were introduced by Elon Musk on Twitter.

Persecondnews recalls that on June 5, 2021, the Federal Government under the leadership of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari had banned Twitter after the company deleted Buhari’s tweet.

Erstwhile Information Minister Lai Mohammed had announced government has “indefinitely suspended” Twitter’s operations in the country.

“The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria,” it read.

The statement, which was posted on the ministry’s official Twitter handle, accused the American social media company of allowing its platform to be used “for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.”

Some pointed out the irony of announcing the ban on Twitter, with one person replying: “You’re using Twitter to suspend Twitter? Are you not mad?”

The suspension came two days after Twitter deleted a tweet by Buhari that was widely perceived as offensive.

In the tweet, Buhari had threatened to deal with the people in the Southeast, who he blamed for the recurring attacks on public infrastructure in the region.

“Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War.

“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” Buhari wrote in the now-deleted tweet.

He referred to the brutal two-year Nigeria-Biafra war, which killed an estimated one to three million people, mostly from the Igbo tribe in the eastern part of the country between 1967-1970.

The tweet was deleted after many Nigerians flagged it to Twitter and the platform insisted that it had violated its policy on abusive behaviour.