Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president and a presidential aspirant, reacted to the killing of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, by condemning the act and asking for justice but later deleted the post he made on his social media handles.
Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a 200 Level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State was murdered for “blasphemy”.She was accused of making a social media post that blasphemed Prophet Muhammad and was beating and set ablaze by a mob on the school campus, yesterday.
This caused a lot of reactions on social media in which the former vice president and a presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, also reacted by condemning the act and later deleted the post he made on his social media handles.
He wrote “There cannot be a justification for such gruesome murder. Deborah Yakubu was murdered, and all those behind her death must be brought to justice. My condolences to her family and friends.”
However, Atiku has been under threats of the Northerners Muslim with their social media comments not to vote for Atiku if he emerges as PDP’s presidential candidate.
In response to the threats, he deleted his post both on Facebook and Twitter.
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