Presidency denies attack on Buhari in Abuja mosque

The presidency yesterday dismissed as untrue, reports that President Muhammadu Buhari was attacked last Friday and escaped being lynched by suspected irate members of the Shiites Movement of Nigeria at the National Mosque, Abuja.

It said that no right-thinking group will contemplate such an action considering the security implication of doing so.

Specifically, online reports had it that the president, who came to the mosque for the second time since his inauguration in 2015 for the wedding of his brother-in-law, Hamza, was attacked by a large group of the irate worshippers immediately after the end of the Friday prayers.

It would seem that the irate protesters had foreknowledge of the president’s coming to the mosque, and had mobilized against him.

The Guardian, April 3, 2018

 

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