SAN FRANCISCO, November 19, (THEWILL) – Senate’s Deputy Chief Whip Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has revealed that he had received a lot of reactions from Nigerians, including outright “threats” to his life over the proposed Hate Speech Bill recently introduced by the Senate.
Abdullahi, who addressed reporters yesterday in Abuja, said the Bill is meant to check what he called abuse of the nation’s “faultiness of ethnicity and religion” to cause crisis adding that it was not meant to give President Muhammadu Buhari alleged third term agenda.
“For those who think their ludicrous assessment that the Hate Speech Bill is meant to give the current President (Muhammadu Buhari) a third term, it is not true,” he said.
Abdullahi regretted that many Nigerians, who decried the Bill merely “jumped the gun” by reaching conclusions before reading it.
“For those shouting and using words that by every definition is Hate Speech, let them be guided,” he said.
“People said that the Bill is to prevent free speech. This is far from the truth. Very soon I will lead the debate for the Bill to be read a second time on floor of the Senate,” Abdullahi added.
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