Hon. James Faleke, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency has denounced report of a said ongoing empowerment fund by the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The report online had been promoted via Falake’s Facebook account.
However, the lawmaker who doubles as Secretary of APC Presidential Campaign Council has issued a rebuttal, claiming his account was hacked and nothing of such of programme ongiong.
The statement: “I have been inundated with reports from several Nigerians about activities of some unscrupulous elements who hacked my official Facebook account, to extort money from unsuspecting Nigerians.
“According to them, these individuals requested that the intending beneficiaries should pay the sum of N18,500 into a designated account.
“One of the individuals behind this fraud is also sending messages to unsuspecting victims using the name of a certain Dr Lukman Johnny with phone number 08147136835.”
He further claimed that the person is a staff of the federal ministry of agriculture in Abuja.
“It reads: ‘Dr Lukman Johnny on 08147136835 tell him I directed you, he is the director in charge of the empowerment fund in federal ministry of agriculture here in Abuja, he will guide you on what to do’.
“I, therefore, wish to put on record that I am not aware of any empowerment fund being allocated or distributed to any individual or group of persons by Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, or myself.
“At no given time did I initiate such a scheme and will not subscribe to any form of dubious activities of fraudsters.”
He urged Nigerians not to subscribe to the antics of those “criminals” while appealing to all and sundry to track and report the activities of the criminals to relevant security agencies. (NAN)
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