The presidency has urged Nigerians to discountenance
tweets purportedly linked to one of the daughters of
the president, Zahra Buhari, saying the Twitter handle
does not belong to her.
Zahra was alleged to have posted some
uncomplimentary comments about some foreign
leaders on a Twitter handle with the name @Zahra_
Buhari.
But a statement by senior special assistant to the
president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu,
noted that the Twitter account is falsely linked to her
because she had stopped using the said account after
it was hacked.
President Buhari
Shehu stated: “The attention of the Presidency has
been drawn to unauthorised and unexpected Tweets
by an account falsely linked to Zahra Buhari, one of the
daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Following enquiries by a few foreign missions on the
raging online controversy about unsavory comments
against some foreign leaders purportedly made by her,
we wish to state categorically that Zahra is indeed on
Twitter but the offending handle @Zahra_Buhari has
stopped being her own for a long time since 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.”
Shehu gave Zahra’s authentic handle as @ZmBuhari,
even as he noted that “any handle other than this on
Twitter should be considered as fake and, therefore,
fraudulent”.
He also informed the public that only Zahra is on
Twitter as neither the president’s wife nor any of his
other children are currently on the social platform or
Facebook.
The presidential media aide said, “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”.

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