February 20, (THEWILL) – FBN Holdings Plc, the parent company of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has dismissed reports, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) declared its Group Managing Director, Nnamdi Okonkwo, wanted in connection with a bogus N400bn purportedly discovered in the home of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The clarification followed a report by an online platform (not THEWILL), that EFCC operatives raided Tinubu’s home and recovered N400bn.
The report, which has since been dismissed by both the EFCC and the APC Presidential Campaign Council, had also alleged that the Commission declared the MD of FirstBank wanted, with an image of Nnamdi Okonkwo, the Group Managing Director of FBN Holdings used.
However, in a statement on Monday, the management of FBN Holdings described the report as “malicious”, fake news, and an attempt to damage the country’s banking system at large by dragging it into the murky waters of politics.
The statement read: “Our attention has been drawn to false news making the rounds that an order of arrest has been made against the MD of FirstBank whilst using the name and image of the GMD of FBN Holdings.
“We wish to state categorically that this is fake news, which has already been debunked by EFCC in their publication titled: ‘EFCC Did Not Raid Tinubu’s Home’ and signed by the Commission’s Head, Media & Publicity, on its verified Twitter handle.
“Neither the Managing Director of the bank nor the Group Managing Director of the holding company, Nnamdi Okonkwo, has any involvement with the matters alleged in this made-up news story nor is there an order of arrest against either one of them.
“The public should disregard this and all such stories whilst the authorities are called upon to fish out the perpetrators of this malicious story.”
