Finally, Atiku Opens Up On Deleted Deborah Murder Tweet

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has condemned the killing of Deborah Yakubu, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, North-West Nigeria and at the same time explained why he deleted the tweet on the murder.

He stated these on Sunday night during a live discussion on People’s Townhall, a brainchild of Channels Television and its partners.

The PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar at The People’s Townhall, a live event of Channels Television in Abuja on December 11, 2022. Channels TV/Sodiq Adelakun.

Atiku also said he deleted his initial tweet on the murder of Deborah because he did not approve the tweet. The Christian student was lynched in May for alleged blasphemy.

Atiku’ tweet condemning the killing of Deborah was greeted with stark criticisms but the PDP presidential candidate said he condemned the murder of the student in “subsequent statements”.

“I asked the tweet to be deleted because I normally approve every tweet. So, since I didn’t approve it, I said, ‘delete it’. If you read my subsequent statements on that murder, I condemned it.

“There is nowhere it is said or it is an injunction in the Islamic faith that you can go and take somebody’s life, nowhere, it has to be through due process,” the former Vice President said.

GWG.ng reports that the deleted tweet on the murder of Deborah is one of the issues that have dogged the Atiku campaign on social media with critics asserting that the former vice-president deleted the tweet to please conservative Muslims.

With additional reports from Channels TV

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