She also warned members of the public to avoid making contact with the administrators of these accounts.
Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said that she doesn’t own a Facebook account.
She also warned members of the public to avoid making contact with the administrators of these accounts.
Dabiri-Erewa made the comments via a statement released by her media aide, Abdur-Rahman Balogun.
The statement reads:
It
has come to the attention of the Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa that
some fake `Facebook’ accounts have been opened in her name.
It
was also brought to our notice that these hackers opened 11 different
accounts of Facebook in Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa’s name and was using the
various accounts to dupe their unsuspecting and innocent Nigerians.
For the avoidance of doubts, some of the fake accounts says Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa of the House of Senate, National Assembly.
Another
one says: she is of Nigerian House of Representatives, She is `Special
assistance’ to President Muhammadu Buhari, she is of Maryland
Comprehensive Secondary school, Aso Villa Abuja, Nigeria with her
various pictures adorning all the pages with minimum of 7,025 likes to
62,176 likes.
All of these are fake and
not from Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa. The Hon. Senior Special Assistant to
the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora is always available and
members of the public can reach her on: ssa@diaspora.gov.ng on issues
pertaining to her office.
It must be
noted that while Hon. Dabiri-Erewa has reported severally to Facebook,
fake accounts keep popping up in her name again, urging Facebook to look
into such easy method of cloning peoples’ identity.
The issue is already being handled by the security agencies to track down those behind creation of these fake accounts.
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