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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has distanced itself from the purported move to probe the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress(APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s alleged links with a drug cartel in the United States.
The denial followed the emergence of a press released purported to have been issued by the Commission, saying the commission had started investigating a case of criminal forfeiture of the sum of $460,000 by Tinubu in a US court in 1993. The said release has been trending online since Friday 11th November 2022,
However, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee at the Commission, Mr Festus Okoye has disowned the document, describing it as fake.
“It claims that the Commission has commenced investigation into a case of criminal forfeiture against one of the Presidential candidates in the forthcoming General Election and is liaising with a Court in the United States of America in pursuit of same to determine possible violation of our guidelines or the Electoral Act 2022.
“We wish to state categorically that the said Press Release did not emanate from the Commission nor is it pursuing the purported course of action. It is the handiwork of mischief makers and utterly fake.
“Press Releases from the Commission are uploaded to the INEC Press Corps platform and simultaneously disseminated through our website and official social media handles.
The public is advised to ignore the Press Release, Okoye said.
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