A fake twitter account by a certain
Ima Sadiq, tweeting
@imamsadiq123 has surfaced to
discredit the Presidential candidacy of
General Muhammadu Buhari of the
opposition All Progressive Congress.
The account which was started on
Friday and has some 51 followers is
posing as a Buhari supporting Islamic
cleric, suggesting that Buhari’s
singular mission in Aso Rock is to
entrench the Shariah law. Already
vigilant social media users have
rubbished the twitter account as an
attempt to discredit Buhari’s
candidacy by echoing the
propaganda that have been used over
the years to portray Buhari as a
religious fanatic.
Tolu Ogunlesi, journalist and social
commentator, who has been blowing
the whistle on the account told
Sunday Trust that “it is obviously a
fake account. Clearly is someone who
is being mischievous, someone who
wants to pose as a Buhari supporter
to exploit religious tensions.”
The profile picture of the twitter
handle was initially that of the US
first openly gay imam, Daayiee
Abdullah, and when this was pointed
out, the operator of the handle
changed it to that of Washington DC
Masjid imam, Abdul Alim Musa.
The twitter handle has attracted pro-
Jonathan supporters, including the
PDP Youth Frontier (@PDPYF) which
have engaged the purported imam to
further explain his tweets.
This was one of the exchanges on the
twitter account: PDP Youth Frontier
@PDPYF: @imamsadiq123 You mean
you don’t believe that Nigeria is a
secular state? Are you supporting
Buhari bks he Believes in Shaaria
law?
Writer and publisher, Eghosa Imasuen
says the kind of social media users
that have engaged the handle are
“the same robots that are paid
N100,000 monthly.” “It would be
tragic if it wasn’t so transparent,” he
said. Popular blogger and tweeter,
Japhet Omojuwa also speaking to
Sunday Trust said there is an
antecedence of something like this.
“The Modus Operandi looks like
something we have seen before with
the Wendell Simlin scandal. The idea
is to make it look like a Buhari
supporter and enforce all the things
that have been said about him in the
past. “I have asked for it [the
account] to be reported to Twitter. It
is a good thing that it is being ratted
out so that the impact can be
checked,” he said.
Earlier in the year, Presidential aide,
Reno Omokri, sent out documents in
the name of a certain Wendell Simlin
trying to associate former Central
Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
of being behind Boko Haram.
Screenshot of fake twitter handle
created to discredit APC
candidate Muhammadu Buhari
The president’s senior adviser on
social media however forgot to
remove his digital signature on the
documents and was widely
condemned for his action and
attempt at spreading false
information on a perceived opponent
of the Jonathan government.

No weapon fashioned against GMB shall prosper

source: http://www.saharareporters.com/2014/12/29/fake-twitter-account-discredit-buhari-surfaces-sunday-trust

Surely the handiwork of the Canker.worms

yinchar:
Surely the handiwork of the Canker.worms

lai muhammed tagged them Philistines