{"id":103638,"date":"2023-03-15T00:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103638"},"modified":"2023-03-15T00:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:35:21","slug":"head-of-ict-bode-george-purveyor-of-fake-news-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/head-of-ict-bode-george-purveyor-of-fake-news-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of ICT: Bode George purveyor of fake news &#8211; INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked the news that its Head of ICT was a former Commissioner in Lagos State and an associate of APC leader and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, describing such news as false.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In statement by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. Festus Okoye, the commission said that all its ICT staff are career officers and that none had held any political appointment in any state of the Federation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said, &#8220;The attention of the Commission has been drawn to a widely publicised report attributed to a well known Lagos politician Chief Olabode George that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appointed one Femi Odubiyi, a former Commissioner in Lagos State and an associate of a prominent politician, as its Head of ICT. Nothing can be further from the truth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;To set the record straight, the name \u201cFemi Odubiyi\u201d does not even exist within our ICT Department at the INEC headquarters in Abuja or any State office of the Commission.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Our ICT staff are career officers of the Commission. None has held any political appointment in any State of the Federation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The public is urged to disregard the story. Its promoter should have been circumspect so as not to be seen as a purveyor of fake news.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chief George recently alleged that the former Director of ICT in INEC, Chidi Nwafor&#8217; was transfered to Enugu state to make way for Odubiyi who he said was a close associate of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked the news that its Head of ICT was a former Commissioner in Lagos State and an associate of APC leader and President-elect,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Head of ICT: Bode George purveyor of fake news - INEC - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/head-of-ict-bode-george-purveyor-of-fake-news-inec\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Head of ICT: Bode George purveyor of fake news - INEC - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked the news that its Head of ICT was a former Commissioner in Lagos State and an associate of APC leader and President-elect,&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/head-of-ict-bode-george-purveyor-of-fake-news-inec\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-14T23:35:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bode-George-1140x728-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/head-of-ict-bode-george-purveyor-of-fake-news-inec\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/head-of-ict-bode-george-purveyor-of-fake-news-inec\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Head of ICT: Bode George purveyor of fake news &#8211; 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