Zahra Buhari's former Twitter handle was hacked with the impostor using the account for controversial publications. To curb the problem, the presidency has released her new Twitter handle and issued a disclaimer on the former.
@Zahra_Buhari which is the former Twitter account of the daughter of the President, Zahra Buhari caused an uproar on the social media after an attack on the Gambian President, President Yahya Jammeh over his comments on homosexuality.
The presidency swiftly moved to offer a disclaimer on the former account which was reportedly hacked. A new one was then released yesterday, July 5.
See a screenshot of the tweet from the former:
An official statement from the presidency reads:
The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to unauthorized 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. Zahra’s authentic handle is @ZmBuhari and any handle other than this on Twitter should be considered as fake and therefore fraudulent.
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 social media platforms.
As they the 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.
*This hereby renders invalid all the series of fake accounts representing all the members of the President's family which are being runned by fraudsters.