Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, has denied collecting
the bio-data of Nigerians to distribute money as a result of the coronavirus
pandemic.
Paul Ibe, spokesman to Abubakar, said a notice in
circulation asking citizens to provide such data for such should be
disregarded.
Ibe said the notice was put up by scammers to defraud
Nigerians, and that the website being used for such —
www.atikufoundation.online — is unknown to the former vice-president.
“We wish to bring to the attention of Nigerians that former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar is not connected to a certain notice circulating
on social media directing unsuspecting members of the public to a link,” he
said in a statement on Thursday.
“We thus state categorically that any such link asking for the
bio-data of Nigerians as beneficiaries of monetary handout is FAKE.
“This is obviously a SCAM, an attempt to fleece and defraud
Nigerians by, perhaps, collecting their vital bio-data for a nefarious objective orchestrated by masterminds of the advertisement on social media.
“Atiku Abubakar, his businesses or charity organization is
not in the know of this purported plan and the accompanying advertorial. The
website address, https//www.atikufoundation.online, given by the scammers for
individuals to apply, is unknown to the former Vice President.
“As a patriotic and law abiding citizen, the Waziri Adamawa
had pledged his modest public donation to the Federal Government through the
Priam Group to support government’s effort in fighting the spread of Coronavirus
in Nigeria and in providing succour to the most vulnerable of people amid the
ravaging pandemic.”
Ibe asked security agencies to go after the “scammers” and
bring them to book.
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