Nigerians react to Buhari's media aide, Bashir Ahmad's tweet in which he supported death penalty for blasphemy

Nigerians have reacted to President Buhari's media aide, Bashir Ahmad's tweet which surfaced in the wake of the death penalty handed out to a Kano singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu who was found guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March 2020.



Bashir Ahmad had in the tweet shared in 2015, supported the death penalty for blasphemy which he described as his "belief".

The tweet read;

I cant 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 has led to an outcry from Nigerians who asked how he is different from Boko Haram insurgents who mete out same treatment to those they accuse of blasphemy.

Here are some tweets below;

Bashir Ahmad works and lives in Aso Villa. That's the pinnacle. He is one of the most educated and yet he's blinded by religious extremism.

Their education is a waste and their very existence is a liability to humanity. https://t.co/3tcvSs9yES

— iSIOMA (@isiomanb) August 11, 2020

Bashir Ahmad supports the killing of a human being because of blasphemy against Mohammed. The sharia law now supersedes the Nigerian constitution, so why then are we fighting bokoharam terrorist?

Ganduje was caught on camera collecting bribe, why does he still have his hands?

— PRINCE | OF | AFRICA (@rickieflamez) August 11, 2020

Bashir Ahmad an opportunist in aso Rock who doesn't know that everyone's time elapses & our past will definitely come to haunt us "liked" a tweet supporting the death penalty of a young man in Kano state for "blasphemy"

May history never forget this!

— CHISOMAGA (@iamAvictor_) August 11, 2020

Whatever Bashir Ahmad believes is what Buhari believes. They believe in death penalty or punishment for blasphemy in 2020. They believe in the living being punished for a dead rotten man. Some of you campaigned for these people to enter Aso Rock. Fools.

— Tech bro 😀 (@kcnaija) August 11, 2020

...and this eleribu Bashir Ahmad is from Kano where they have the highest out of School children but you have not made any statement based on that. Your education, if you have one is a waste to your family generations. Eleribu Omo'daran ale. https://t.co/IrTWUOY06N

— EZE GBURU GBURU 1© @IamProfAboki (@iamprofaboki) August 11, 2020

Bashir Ahmad. I'm ashamed of you. In this age and time, exhibiting all this religious madness in a secular country like Nigeria. To think you're actually a presidential assistant in a whole Federal Republic.

Tueh! https://t.co/jKfnSbpoLD

— Mo.🕊️ (@MohammedBlack_) August 11, 2020