The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has just stumbled on a rogue website, www. Igbotimesmagazine.online,\u00a0out to disseminate false and malicious information about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n
In its latest false news, the site claimed that some EFCC operatives, on the order of President Muhammadu Buhari raided the \u201cunderground home\u201d of Tinubu. It claimed that N400 billion of the new notes was recovered from there. The story, which\u00a0 notably lacked the essential \u201cwhen, where and how\u201d ingredients of any news story, went viral.<\/span><\/p>\n The EFCC has since issued a formal statement on the purported raid by its men as\u00a0 a fake story the public should disregard.<\/span><\/p>\n 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 \u201cthe money recovered in Tinubu\u2019s \u201cunderground house\u201d is equivalent of \u201cthe entire money printed for the whole Nigeria\u201d by the CBN.<\/span><\/p>\n So, if Tinubu alone has all the money printed by Godwin Emefiele\u2019s CBN, how do you account for the billions distributed by the apex bank to all the banks, including operators of POS?<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n In a previous post two weeks ago, the site had claimed that \u2018an angry mob blocked N3 billion of new notes heading to Tinubu\u2019s house\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Other fake news on the site included\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/p>\n We want to warn Nigerians to be wary of every piece of news emanating from the site, and its social media handles.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n The igbotimesmagazine.online, with its affiliated social media handles exists for no good of our country.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n We urge the authorities to fish out the people behind the site, that is recklessly\u00a0 dishing out fake news, before more damage is done to our polity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has just stumbled on a rogue website, www. Igbotimesmagazine.online,\u00a0out to disseminate false and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}