On Wednesday, January 21, Silverbird
TV’s breakfast show tagged, Today on STV ended midway when a popular Lagos lawyer,
Festus Keyamo was taking a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan’s
administration. Mr. Keyamo, was speaking
about the forthcoming elections and the ‘State of the Nation, turned on Jonathan,
blaming him for Nigeria’s insecurity woes among other things and hinting that a
Muhammadu Buhari would have done better in his position, suddenly the programme
went off air.
However, the station has revealed
that what took place on Wednesday morning was a technical problem, which has
been happening before that day.
Meanwhile, viewers of the
programme attributed the station’s “shutdown” to Mr. Keyamo’s harsh criticism
of Jonathan, a close friend of Ben Bruce, the owner of the TV station and a
Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Senatorial candidate in Bayelsa State.
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