Zahra Buhari's new interview, Life as the president's daughter

In a new interview with Mimie Laushi of   THE AMBA IMPRINT president Buhari's daughter Zahra revealed some exclusive details about herself and how her life has changed since she became the president's daughter. She also address the controversial fake twitter account that impersonated her some time ago. Enjoy!

Who inspires you and what motivates you?

My mom inspires me. Whenever she is ready to do something, (she is such a fiery woman) she just gets up and gets it done and it is always for a good cause. Even my interest in charity work, I know it’s something I get from her. Since we were kids, she encouraged us to give to the less privileged and we enjoyed doing that. And.. My motivation is our position. We know that we are here to help Nigerians, it is not about us and even way before getting into this position, the less privileged have always been my motivation.

A while ago, a fake twitter account was created to appear to be you and many people believed it was you. The account made some controversial statements. How do you feel about someone impersonating you online?

I don’t feel good at all because the first question that comes to your mind is ‘why would someone want to be me?’ And why would you want to taint someone’s image? I knew many people would be tricked into thinking it was me, that bothered me and when the fake controversial comments came out about me talking about a president,

 I was hurt because this wasn’t an insult to my family only, it was to the whole of Nigeria because it is just like saying members of the first family don’t have a proper upbringing. Why would I insult a president? Why would I insult any person in general? It’s just not right. So I asked them to come up with that press release because that was the only way it would get out to people as soon as possible. That was not me and I wouldn’t do such a thing.

Sometimes when you are thrust into the spotlight, there are some relationship changes. Some people pull back and just stick to family. Do you have the issue of having to deal with a lot of people trying to get closer to you?

It’s actually very hard to get to me ‘cause I have been changing numbers so people can’t really get me and the second thing is, not too many people know me personally. The problem comes up once in a while, when people now want to be closer to you but you just have to do what you have to do.

Before the 2015 Presidential elections, Nigerians discovered your twitter and it blew up. People found your pictures and they were all over the blogs and social media. What do you have to say bout that?

Some people thought I was the one who gave the pictures out but I did not even know it happened. I was in my room, just before I went for yoga that evening and I got messaged with a link to a blog so I looked through it and I felt no one would care about it so when I was through with my yoga, I opened my phone and messages, missed calls and so many followers on twitter came through and I was wondering what was happening. All my friends were calling me to look at it. It was a crazy time and it is something you don’t expect at all and then right after it happened, my first prayer was “Oh God, help me help people with this fame that I have right now” so that’s how I became an ambassador I guess.

FULL interview here