The Presidency said its attention has been drawn to unauthorised and unexpected Tweets by an account falsely linked to Zahra Buhari, one of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari.
It said Zahra has nothing to do with the tweets and the Twitter account as she stopped using the handle a long time ago after it was compromised.
This was contained in a statement by the Senior special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday.
The Presidency said following enquiries by a few foreign missions on the raging online controversy about unsavoury 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.
“It 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 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.”