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President Muhammadu Buhari has disowned unauthorized and unexpected tweets by an account "falsely linked" to one of his daughters, Zahra.
Buhari, through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity Malam Garba Shehu, described the purported tweets by his daughter as the work of hackers seeking to cause mischief between Nigeria and other friendly states.
The presidential aide also noted that neither Buhari's wife, Aisha, nor the other children are currently on Twitter, Facebook or the various other platforms.
"Following enquiries by a few foreign missions on the raging online controversy about unsavory comments against some foreign leaders purportedly made by Zahra, 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," he said.
Shehu added that "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 unauthorized and therefore fake."
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