365news gathered that Arise Television has apologized to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, for a misleading story that INEC had launched a forfeiture inquiry into Tinubu.
According to Arise TV, INEC has begun investigating a case of criminal forfeiture involving Tinubu.
The management of Arise TV did, however, offer a public apologies on Sunday morning after INEC publicly debunked the bogus news.
The station said: “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 is now been denied by after the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC and we apologise most sincerely to the APC presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the earlier broadcast.”
INEC in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in Abuja on Saturday, described the report as the handiwork of mischief makers. (The Nation)
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