Do away with fake news on Atiku's arraignment – EFCC warn

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged the overall public to ignore online creations hypothesizing that the commission had charged past VP Atiku Abubakar over assumed coercion of N75.3 billion.


In a declaration on Friday, January 10, 2020, Mr Tony Orilade, the commission's acting agent ousted the report of Atiku's alleged arraignment before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offenses Court, Ikeja, Lagos, as fake.

"The thought of the commission has been pulled in to an online report which declared that the commission on Thursday, January 9, 2020, charged past Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

"We wish to state totally that nothing of such happened.


"The Commission furthermore wishes to express that no declaration or authority proclamation emanated from the agent of the Commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, with that effect as affirmed in the report.

"Nor was there any relationship of any sort from the Commission's analyst, Joy Amahian, in the whimsical arraignment.


"The story remains the makers innovative personality of fake news.

"The Commission, along these lines, urges the general populace to expel the fake news as craftsmanship of mischief makers," the declaration read to a constrained degree.


The choice party, All Progressives Congress (APC), had in an alternate report a couple of days back asked the past Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to return taken resources and apologize to Nigerians.