The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has explained why he deleted the tweet condemning the murder of Deborah Samuel, a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto.
It should be recalled that Deborah was lynched by a mob for alleged blasphemy in May.
Atiku however condemned the heinous act on his Twitter handle and later deleted the post to the surprise of Nigerians.
His decision generated reactions from Nigerians across social media with many slamming him for exhibiting double-standard on the matter.
Efforts by Atiku to placate Nigerians on the matter had fallen on deaf ears.
While speaking at Channels Television’s recent town hall meeting in Abuja, he said the removal of the tweet was not approved by him and insisted that he condemned the illegal killing in his subsequent reactions.
He said: “I have been asked this question several times, and the answer I always give is, I deleted the tweet because I didn’t approve it. I normally approve of every tweet. So I asked the tweet to be deleted because I didn’t approve it.
“And if you read my subsequent reactions on that matter, I condemned it. There is nowhere where it’s an injunction in the Islamic faith to kill someone. You have to follow due process.”
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