Aisha Yesufu Kannywood
Human right activist, Aisha Yesufu, has been attacked on social media by Kannywood actors, Zainab Abdullahi and Zahradeen Sani for her involvement in the #ENDSARS protest which made them to state that she must be attacked by all means.
Aisha Yesufu, became a morale booster and symbol for Nigerians calling for the scrapping of SARS when a picture of her taken in one of the protest grounds at Abuja, where raised a clenched fist.
Zainab Abdullahi called for Yesufu’s head and tag her a ‘Jew in Islamic shirt’. Zainab wrote in an Instagram post, “Hear what she said about President Buhari who was born to be a grandson, she is not ashamed, she is a Jew in Islamic shirt. She is talking no shame. Stop seeing her as a hero, she is with a hidden purpose for Muslim religion and our peace”
Another Kannywood actor, Zahradeen Sani also took to social media to ask Northerners to attack Aisha Yesufu and also called the #ENDSARS protesters infidels. In a video that has gone viral on social media, Sani repeatedly cursed the activist and accused her of being an agent of Christians against teachings of Islam.
Like Zainab, Yesufu was called ”an agent of Jews” and said she must be attacked by fellow Northerners for her stand during the #ENDSARS protest.
Aisha Yesufu is a human right activist and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement.