Lagos state’s former governor Babatunde Fashola has revealed his Twitter account has been hacked and several tweets had been published in a language that resembled Japanese.
Furthermore, all posts on Fashola’s official website and feeds redirected to the his Twitter account, @tundefashola appeared in a similar foreign language (Japanese). The website as at the point of gathering this report can not longer be accessed due to ‘unknown technical problems’.
However, a statement signed by his former Special Adviser on Media, Mr Hakeem Bello revealed that the twitter account must have been compromised as members of the public, who follow the former Governor, started calling to draw attention to the strange tweets.
It would be recalled that Governor Fashola also recently dissociated himself from a Facebook scam, whereby some unscrupulous persons use his photographs and ascribe fictitious statements to him on fake Facebook accounts aimed at defrauding innocent people.
The call became necessary for the umpteenth time, the statement said then, in view of the activities of scammers who have been issuing out series of Facebook comments and information in his name with the intention of during unsuspecting members of the public.
