Buhari’s aide gets bashed as old tweet supporting death penalty for blasphemy resurfaces

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A presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, has been severely criticised on Twitter after a 2015 tweet of him expressing support for the death penalty for blasphemy resurfaced on the social media platform.

Ahmad is the Personal Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The presidential aide, who hails from Kano, was reacting to the 2015  sentencing of eight men and one woman to death by a Sharia Court in the state for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed.

In the controversial tweet, Ahmad wrote, “I can’t pretend or keep silent. I support the death penalty for BLASPHEMY. That’s my belief and I do not and will never support #SaveKanoNine”

The tweet resurfaced after another man, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death Monday for committing the same crime.

Like the previous nine convicts, Yahaya is a member of the Tijjaniyya sect, followers of Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse, the Senegalese cleric with a very large following across West Africa.

They had all been accused of elevating Niasse above Prophet Mohammed.

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But many commentators bashed Ahmad for his stance, saying it promoted religious extremism.

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