The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked speculations in the social media that a property vandalized by some youths in a video clip, belonged to its Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu.
Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja, said Yakubu had no such property anywhere in the world.
He urged members of the public to disregard the claim.
“The property being purportedly attacked by some youths in a video clip, circulating on the social media, does not belong to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
“The INEC Chairman does not own the property in question in either Bauchi or anywhere else around the world.
“This narrative is indeed the latest in the series of desperate smear campaign efforts by mischief makers. The public should disregard it,” Oyekanmi said.
Similarly, the Bauchi State Police Command, said hoodlums did not attack the residence of INEC Chairman in Bauchi.
The spokesperson, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, in a statement, said the viral video making the rounds in the media about the attack, “is entirely fake, as no such event occurred within or around Bauchi metropolis, earlier today.”
It added however that “the State Commissioner of Police, CP Aminu Alhassan, cognizant of the negative impacts of disinformation on public peace, and security, particularly in this our post-election period, has already ordered a discreet investigation to unravel the origin of the video, with a view to ensuring that the fabricator of the viral clip face the full wrath of the law.
“Once again, the Bauchi State Police Command reiterates that there was no attack of any nature on the residence of the INEC Chairman in Bauchi.
“As such, the general public is hereby urged not to panic, while also disregarding the fake video and its malicious content,” the statement reads.
