Bashir Ahmed, former media aide to the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has faulted the apology by Farooq Kperogi, a professor of journalism at Kennesaw State University in the United States of America, over the allegation that Aisha Buhari divorced her husband before his death.
Ahmed, in a statement on his X account on Sunday, described Kperogi’s allegation as reckless and ill-timed.
DAILY POST recalls that Kperogi, four days ago, alleged that before his death on Saturday, July 13, 2025.
However, Kperogi on Sunday, in a Facebook post, tendered his unreserved apology over his earlier publication on the purported Aisha Buhari divorce.
The professor described his action as “one of the worst and cruellest lapses of judgement.”
“To Mrs. Aisha Buhari, I offer my heartfelt and unreserved apology for the needless and deeply regrettable hurt I have caused. I am truly sorry,” he wrote in his apology to the former First Lady.
Reacting, Ahmed blasted Kperogi, “You can’t be a journalism teacher and specialise gravely in speculative reportage.”
“To act on secondhand claims, admit they were not intended to be public, and then seek refuge behind an apology after the damage is done is not courage; it is cowardice dressed as contrition,” he wrote on X.
