By Matthew Tabe
Thousands of social media users have expressed their embarrassment with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on it position on the allegations surrounding the APC Presidential Candidate Ahmed Bola Tinubu over the forfeited $460,000 forfeiture allegations to US government.
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The users are appealing to INEC to dig into the allegations than standing so low as a cowardice by issuing a cheap press release to debunks the documents.
Some of the followers on Twitters put; @harmony_sol said ” so will the Commission let the criminal case slide.
@fenrir_0007 simply said Nice, will not be investigating. Are you saying you will allow a candidate with drug and money laundering contest ? What is your next form of action here?
Also @Amber.I.O posited, what a cowardly and compromised INEC! You even called the right thing to do Purported.
Another follower @Oyibojosep said ‘ Una dey fear?
@ritablackshine posted ‘ So when do you plan on commenting on the issue. First you let him not having school certificate slide, now you won’t even investigate an entire drug case?
However @iam_jayfrey said Gist… Make e no be like una no do anything.
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Earlier, INEC has denied the claim that it is investigating a criminal forfeiture case against Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Recalled that on Friday, a document with INEC’s letterhead which claimed that the commission was investigating a 1993 case in the United States involving Tinubu forfeiting some money to the US government, had surfaced on social media platforms.
Prior to the claim, documents had been shared on social media, which showed that Tinubi had forfeited $460,000 to the US government.
Speaking on the development, Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the APC presidential campaign council, had dismissed claims that the case linked Tinubu to illicit drugs, adding that the sum forfeited was tax deductions.
In a statement issued on Saturday, Festus Okoye, chairman, INEC information and voter education committee, said the document claiming the commission was investigating Tinubu on the matter was “fake”.
“a release purported to have been issued by the Commission has been trending online since yesterday Friday 11th November 2022,” the statement reads.
“It claims that the Commission has commenced investigation into a case of criminal forfeiture against one of the Presidential candidates in the forthcoming General Election and is liaising with a Court in the United States of America in pursuit of same to determine possible violation of our guidelines or the Electoral Act 2022.
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.