…the stories making the rounds are fake and ruse INEC insists
By Temitope Adedeji
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has denied reports that the Commission was investigating the allegations of drug trafficking made against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman Rotimi Oyekanmi, who made this explanation, told newsmen on Saturday that the statement in circulation, credited to the Commission was fake.
The said statement had quoted INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. Festus Okoye as saying the commission was in talks with United States authorities to get more details on the allegation with a view to determining whether the APC standard bearer may have violated relevant provisions of the Electoral Law 2022 (as amended).
Oyekanmi said the commission would soon issue a comprehensive statement to denounce the fake statement.
