Buhari, Aminat Zakari Don’t Share Family Relationship – Presidency

Buhari, Aminat Zakari Don’t Share Family Relationship – Presidency

The Presidency has attacked PDP, over accusation that INEC official, Amina Zakari is a relation of President Buhari. 

In a statement released on Friday evening, the senior Special
Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the
PDP had continued their ”baseless” accusations against the person of
Amina Zakari.

Recall that Zakarai’s appointment as the chairperson of the INEC
collation center for the 2019 presidential election, was greeted with
serious condemnation following claims she is President Buhari’s niece. 

Shehu in this statement, said PDP has once again lied as Zakari and President Buhari are not in anyway related.

“In their desperation, they forget that it was the PDP government
that appointed her in the first place and they keep lying, as they have
been caught doing on so many issues, by imputing a blood relationship
between her and President Muhammadu Buhari.

“President Buhari and Commissioner Amina Zakari don’t share a family
relationship. An inter-marriage occurred in their extended families, so
the imputation of blood relationship between the President and the
electoral commissioner is a simple lie;

What is even more curious about all the fuss coming from the PDP is
that they, as a ruling party picked Mrs Zakari, judging her by her own
merit and made her an electoral commissioner. She served so well with
distinction as can be verified from the records that President Buhari
approved the recommendation that she be reappointed, as he did other PDP
nominees for second-term of four years. 

PDP, therefore, has no moral right to keep harassing this hardworking mother unless they have a hidden agenda.

By this statement, the PDP is guilty of scoring an own goal and two,
of harassing an innocent citizen on the basis of a lie, pure and
simple.”