A popular television news channel, Arise TV, has apologised to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over a false report that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced a forfeiture investigation against him.
The broadcast station had reported that INEC has commenced investigation into a case of criminal forfeiture against Tinubu regarding a purported criminal forfeiture case in the United States.
However, in a retraction yesterday, the management of Arise TV apologised over the false report after INEC publicly dismissed it as fake.
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, carried the news, which has 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.
INEC, in an issued statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter-Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in Abuja at the weekend, described the report as the handiwork of mischief makers.
Okoye said statements from the INEC are uploaded to the INEC Press Corps platform and simultaneously disseminated through the Commissions website and official social media handles.
