The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has raised alarm over alleged fake website set up to disseminate false and malicious information about Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the party.
Penpushing reports that Director, Media and Publicity of the Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga raised the alarm in a press statement on Sunday, adding that the website www. Igbotimesmagazine.online stated that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the order of President Muhammadu Buhari raided the underground home of Tinubu.
The statement said in its latest false news, the website added that N400 billion of the new notes was recovered from there, faulting the claim that the story notably lacked the essential of when, where and how ingredients of any news story went viral.
‘The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has just stumbled on a rogue website, www. Igbotimesmagazine.online, out to disseminate false and malicious information about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress’, Onanuga wrote.
‘In its latest false news, the site claimed that some EFCC operatives, on the order of President Muhammadu Buhari raided the “underground home” of Tinubu. It claimed that N400 billion of the new notes was recovered from there. The story, which notably lacked the essential “when, where and how” ingredients of any news story, went viral’, the statement reads.
Penpushing further reports that the Presidential Campaign Council said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has since issued a formal statement on the purported raid by its men as a fake story the public should disregard.
‘The dubious website, in its fake story, claimed investigations are still ongoing as to which bank manager made such money available to Tinubu, it then admitted its own absurdity when it wrote that the money recovered in Tinubu’s underground house is equivalent of the entire money printed for the whole Nigeria by the CBN’, the statement emphasised.
‘So, if Tinubu alone has all the money printed by Godwin Emefiele’s CBN, how do your account for the billions distributed by the apex bank to all the banks, including operators of POS?. The site, which on Twitter and Facebook appears to have links with the Labour Party, went further, in another post, to claim that President Muhammadu has ordered the arrest of the bank manager that made the phantom money available to the APC candidate’, Onanuga added.
Penpushing also reports that the Presidential Campaign Council recalled that in a previous post two weeks ago, the site had claimed that an angry mob blocked N3 billion of new notes heading to Tinubu’s house.
‘Other fake news on the site included one that claimed the Federal Government planned to borrow money from kidnappers in Kaduna because they have more money than our country. It credited the misleading news to Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture’.
‘We want to warn Nigerians to be wary of every piece of news emanating from the site, and its social media handles. There will be many of such sites as some candidates become desperate to win at all costs, in fulfilment of some rogue and rigged opinion polls by ANAP Foundation and Nextier, shunning all decent norms and rules’.
Penpushing reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council declared that the igbotimesmagazine.online, which it said has with its affiliated social media handles exists for no good of our country.
‘It is out to misinform and mislead our people and disseminate malicious information on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the run up to the 25 February election, which the opposition candidates, including Peter Obi of Labour Party, are bound to lose’, Onanuga said.
‘We are not surprised that the opposition has embarked on sponsoring a website and social media handles, whose owners are unknown and which lacks physical address or even an email. We urge the authorities to fish out the people behind the site that is recklessly dishing out fake news, before more damage is done to our polity’, he stated.
Meanwhile, as the time of filing this report when Penpushing Media visited the said website www. Igbotimesmagazine.online, it was discovered not functional, hence the website could not be accessed to get any materials to view
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