The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has refuted claims that N400 billion was recovered when Economic and Financial Crimes Commission operatives raided the home of its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Even as the campaign council called for the publishers to be arrested for libel.
The APC PCC rebuttal comes just hours after the EFCC denied conducting the raid on the former Lagos State governor’s residence.
On Sunday, Igbo Times Magazine published a controversial report claiming that EFCC operatives discovered about N400 billion in old notes after raiding one of Tinubu’s underground homes.
The story went viral on social media before being debunked by the anti-corruption agency on Sunday.
The commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, denied the reports in a tweet via its Twitter handle, urging Nigerians to disregard the report as fake news.
According to a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Director of the PCC Media and Publicity, the campaign council discovered that the rogue website was set up to disseminate false and malicious information about their principal.
Onanuga frowned at the story, saying it lacked the essential “when, where, and how” ingredients of any news story.
While applauding the EFCC for quickly distancing itself from the fake story by issuing a formal statement on the alleged raid by its men, the former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria urged Nigerian security agencies to go after the website owners.
He said, “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. We want to warn Nigerians to be wary of every piece of news emanating from the site, and its social media handles