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Arise TV apologizes to Tinubu over fake report
Arise Television has apologised to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over a fake report that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced a forfeiture investigation against Tinubu.
Arise TV had reported that INEC has commenced investigation into a case of criminal forfeiture against Tinubu.
But in a retraction on Sunday morning, the Management of Arise TV apologised over the fake report after INEC publicly dismissed it as fake.
READ ALSO: INEC denies investigating Tinubu over drug trafficking, money laundry scandal
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.
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