EFCC: Arraignment Of Ex-VP Atiku Abubakar Fake News
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied arraigning former Nigerian vice president, Atiku Abubakar, before a Lagos Special Offences Court.
The EFCC said reports of its arraignment of the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before Justice Mojisola Dada over alleged N75.3 billion fraud were fake news.
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A statement issued by the anti-graft agency’s acting spokesperson, Tony Orilade, on Friday, urged members of the public to disregard the reports.
“The attention of the commission has been drawn to an online report which claimed that the commission on Thursday, January 9, 2020, arraigned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
“We wish to state categorically that nothing of such took place.
“The Commission also wishes to state that no statement or press release emanated from the spokesperson of the Commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, to that effect as claimed in the report.
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“Nor was there any involvement of any sort from the Commission’s prosecutor, Joy Amahian, in the imaginary arraignment.
“The story remains the authors imagination of fake news.
“The Commission, therefore, urges the general public to disregard the fake news as handiwork of mischief makers,” the statement read in part.
