President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday disowned Twitter comments allegedly authored by his daughter Zahra.
The disclaimer came through a statement by Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu made available to QED.
Zahra became the centre of controversy when a tweet which described Gambian President, Yahya Jamheh, in sexually derogatory terms went viral on social media.
Shehu however described the post as “unauthorised and unexpected Tweets by an account falsely linked to Zahra Buhari”.
The statement continued: “Following enquiries by a few foreign missions on the raging online controversy about unsavoury 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.
“Zahra’s authentic handle is @ZmBuhari and any handle other than this on Twitter should be considered as fake and therefore fraudulent.”
It also pointed out that “neither the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari nor the other children are presently on Twitter, Facebook or the various other platforms.”
The general public was advised 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 unauthorized and therefore fake.”
