The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Sunday denied news report indicating that its officials have raided and recovered N400 billion from the residence of APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
In a statement by its spokesperson Wilson Uwajaren on Sunday, the anti-graft agency said the story was fake news.
The agency is reacting to an online news reports (not 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE) that President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered EFCC to raid Tinubu’s house and N400billion of the new naira notes were recovered in his bunker.
The statement said, “The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a report circulating in the social media, claiming that operatives of the Commission raided the home of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the forthcoming presidential elections and recovered a humongous sum of N400billion.
“The commission wishes to state that no such operation was carried out by the EFCC. The public is enjoined to disregard the report as fake news.”
