Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, has received an apology from Arise Television for a false allegation that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had opened a forfeiture investigation against Tinubu.
According to Arise TV, INEC has started looking into a case of criminal forfeiture involving Tinubu.
However, as INEC officially discredited the false claim, the management of Arise TV issued a public apology on Sunday morning.
“Of criminal forfeiture of funds, linked to narcotics, smuggling conspiracy, and money laundering against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we Arise News that carried the news, which has now been denied by after the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC and we sincerely apologize to the APC presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the earlier broadcast,” the station said.
Festus Okoye, National Commissioner for INEC and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, issued a statement in Abuja on Saturday describing the report as the product of troublemakers.
