Filmmaker turned politician, Desmond Elliot, has returned to social media after almost one and half months of inactivity.
The 46-year-old made his return on Monday, December 7 with a post shared on Instagram and Facebook to wish a young girl a happy birthday.
His next post came the day after to wish Ghanaian actress, Jackie Appiah, a happy birthday.
He made another post on Thursday, December 10 for the 15th remembrance of televangelist, Pastor Bimbo Odukoya, who died in the Sosoliso Airlines crash at the Port Harcourt International Airport on December 10, 2005.
A grateful Desmond recounted how the deceased Odukoya helped him “at the turn of the new millennium” when his money was stolen on his way to Lagos from Abuja.
Before going on a forced break, Desmond’s last Instagram post was on October 17, three days before soldiers were deployed to the Lekki toll gate in the aftermath of violence that greeted the #EndSARS protest.
His last Facebook post was a video on October 31 to apologise to Nigerian youths for calling them “children” on the floor of the Lagos State House of Assembly.
Desmond deactivated his Twitter account and took a break from Instagram and Facebook after the storm that greeted his statement that there may be no Nigeria in five years if social media is not regulated.
The Surulere rep argued that social media was used to spread fake news, disinformation and violence, including an attack on the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, during the protest.
“The curses, the abuses from children, and I asked myself ‘Is this Nigeria? What is going on? Children cursing?’ People have the effrontery to enter an Oba’s palace, hold the staff of office, culture is gone. Mr. Speaker in the next five years there will be no Nigeria if we don’t start now,” he said.
Matters were made worse when his colleague in the House, Mojisola Alli-Macaulay, added that Nigerian youths were acting under the influence of drugs.
The backlash that followed – even from his colleagues in the entertainment industry – forced Desmond off social media.
While he has resumed posting on Instagram and Facebook, the Married to the Enemy actor is yet to return to Twitter.
Comments are turned off on his Instagram posts.
