Farouk Lawan Denies Ownership of ‘@FaroukLawan01’ Twitter Account

Embattled former Chairman of the House of Representative Ad-hoc committee on fuel subsidy, Hon Farouk Lawan has denied ownership of the twitter account credited to him.

The embattled lawmaker described the twitter account, @FaroukLawan01 which has been posting messages on his behalf as an impersonation of his person

Mr. Lawan, who Premium Times said spoke to its correspondence in a telephone interview stated that he knows nothing about the twitter account and had not authorised anyone to operate it for him.

“I know nothing about it (the twitter account). It is an impersonation,” Mr. Lawan told Premium Times.

The account come to lime light since commencement of the bribery scandal rocking the embattled lawmaker and has been tweeting messages favourable to him.

The lawmaker, however denied owning or having knowledge of the ownership of the twitter account.

“People have been asking me about the account, but I don’t know anything about it,” he said.