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Monday, December 12, 2022
A composite of Atiku and Deborah Samuel used as an instance story.
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) within the 2023 basic elections, Atiku Abubakar, stated he condemned Deborah Samuel’s homicide as a result of it contradicted Islam’s tenets.
Mr Abubakar, whereas showing on Channels TV’s presidential city corridor collection, addressed the controversy that adopted the deletion of his tweet, which condemned the ugly killing of Ms Samuel, a scholar of the Sokoto State School of Schooling stoned and burnt alive by extremist mobs for allegedly blackmailing Prophet Mohammed.
Mr Abubakar pulled down the tweet after a number of northern fanatics stated his place would price him his presidential bid.
Nevertheless, talking on Sunday, Mr Abubakar stated he condemned the killing as a result of it contravened due course of as stipulated by Islamic statutes.
“There’s nowhere it’s stated, or it’s an injunction within the Islamic religion which you can go and take any individual’s life, nowhere, it must be by means of due course of,” stated the PDP presidential standard-bearer.
The previous vice chairman additional prided himself as not afraid to take unpopular stands on points saying that he didn’t initially authorise the tweet that condemned late Ms Samuel’s homicide.
“I requested the tweet to be deleted as a result of I usually approve each tweet. So, since I didn’t approve it, I stated, ‘delete it’. For those who learn my subsequent statements on that homicide, I condemned it,” he stated.
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