Buhari's Fake Marriage: Mastermind in SSS custody

Remember President Muhammadu Buhari's weeding to Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed? Well, it did turned out to be fake, and now the State Security Services (SSS), on Friday, has reportedly arrested the alleged mastermind of the fathom marriage.



Beside Buhari's fictitious marriage to Zainab, another version of same video depicting the president’s marriage to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, was also wildly circulated.

Mrs Ahmed had reportedly filed a formal complaint to the SSS on October 11, 2019, claiming the viral video caused her huge embarrassment,and demanded that the agency carry out an investigation into the source of the visual materials.


Spokesperson of the SSS, Mr Peter Afunanya, who spoke in the agency's headquarters in Abuja on Friday, said the 32 year old suspect known as Kabiru Mohammed, claimed to be a member of a Kano-based political pressure group, Kwankwasiya.

“Last year, 2019 between August and October, there was a defamatory video that circulated widely across Nigeria showing false engagement of Mr President in marriage with some members of his cabinet,” Mr Afunanya said.




The spokesperson said investigations into the matter are still continuing to determine the actual motive behind the suspect’s decision to produce and circulate the materials.

“What we can assure Nigerians is that we would continue to deepen this investigation and bring it to a logical conclusion.



“We will do everything needful within the ambit of the law to bring this to a logical conclusion, to determine whether there are other persons, interests and motives behind this other than what the suspect has confessed,” he said.