Presidency Disowns Zahra Buhari’s Alleged “Offensive” Twitter Comments

Zahra BuhariThe Presidency on Sunday disowned a comment on the micro-blogging site,  Twitter, credited to Zahra Buhari, one of the well-known daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The President’s daughter was said to have made some unsavory remarks about some foreign leaders through a Twitter handle, @Zahra_Buhari.

Precisely, she was alleged, through the above handle to have accused President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia of being a pedophile.

But the Presidency, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the Twitter handle stopped being Ms. Buhari’s own for a long time after it was compromised by hackers.

“Tweets by this handle are therefore not her own and should be disregarded and considered as the work of hackers seeking to cause mischief between this country and other friendly states”, the statement said.

The Presidency gave her authentic Twitter handle as @ZmBuhari, saying any other handle aside from that should be considered as fake and therefore fraudulent.

The statement added, “It is also pertinent to state at this point that neither the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, nor the other children are presently on Twitter, Facebook or the various other platforms.

“As they explore the possibilities on this new territory, we request the general public to ignore the many accounts on various platforms in their names that currently exist. 

“Such accounts, beside the authentic one cited above in the name of Zahra, are unauthorised and therefore fake”.