Presidency explains Buhari’s ‘relationship’ with Zakari

The Presidency has dismissed the allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari has blood relationship with a Comissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission, Mrs, Amina Zakari, who has been appointed to head the committee on votes collation in the coming presidential election.
It specifically accused the Peoples Democratic Party of telling lies by saying Buhari and Zakari are family members.
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.The statement said, “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.”