The presidency has disowned the Twitter handle purportedly linked to one of the daughters of the president, Zahra Buhari.
While imploring Nigerians to discountenance the tweets emanating from the handle, the seart of power said 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.
A statement by senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the Twitter account is falsely linked to her because she had stopped using the said account after it was hacked.
Shehu said, “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”.
