Published 14 March 2021
Ahmed Indimi, son-in-law of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has shared pictures of a white lion on the leash on social media with the caption “my new pet.”
It is not immediately clear if Mr. Indimi is in a petting zoo.
The white lion is a rare color mutation of the lion, specifically the Southern African lion,
Wikipedia reports.
“White lions in the area of Timbavati are thought to have been indigenous to the Timbavati region of South Africa for centuries, although the earliest recorded sighting in this region was in 1938,” it says.
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