The management of Arise Television, on Sunday morning, apologised to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the fake report it had carried purporting an investigation by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of the APC presidential candidate.
The broadcast station had reported that INEC had launched investigation into a case of criminal forfeiture against Tinubu.
The fake Arise TV report allegedly said that INEC was liaising with a court in the United States of America, USA, to determine possible violation of the Electoral Act 2022.
But INEC, according to its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, denied making such move.
Okoye had said on Saturday in Abuja, “We wish to state categorically that the said press release did not emanate from the commission nor is it pursuing the purported course of action. It is the handiwork of mischief makers and utterly fake.”
On Sunday morning, however, the management of Arise TV apologised over the fake INEC report.
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, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we Arise News that carried the news, which is now been denied by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and we apologise most sincerely to the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the earlier broadcast.”
