Amina Zakari Breaks Silence On Rumoured Relationship With Buhari
Amina Zakari, a national commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has clarified the rumoured relationship between her and President Muhammadu Buhari.
In an interview with BBC, Zakari clarified that she is neither Buhari’s cousin nor niece.
This is as her appointment to head the INEC committee on collation centre took the public, analysts and concerned Nigerians talking and raising eyebrows, Naija News reports.
While the PDP had maintained that Zakari is related to the president and her new position would compromise the electoral process, with Buhari seeking reelection, immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has also brought to the notice of Nigerians, how the appointment of Amina Zakari as head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) collation centre for the general elections is a moral burden on the president, his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the electoral commission in particular.
But in the interview with BBC, she was quoted as saying “I’m not his (Buhari’s) niece” and “I am not his cousin”.
She said: “He is not my cousin, he is not my uncle as is being claimed but I know him as my leader and the leader of the nation.”
Zakari said she was appointed since 2010 by former president Goodluck Jonathan and prior to that, appointed as special assistant to former president Olusegun Obasanjo “and I have done my work conscientiously over the years as a patriotic citizen of Nigeria.
“I don’t think I should be distracted now that elections are coming, I will continue doing my work.
“I will continue to serve my country to the best of my ability, with the best of intentions. President Muhammadu Buhari is my President as everybody else’s President.”
source https://www.naijanews.com/2019/01/06/what-president-buhari-is-to-me-amina-zakari-clarifies/
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