{"id":117816,"date":"2025-04-23T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=117816"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:02:22","slug":"apc-warns-nigerians-over-fake-tinubus-empowerment-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/apc-warns-nigerians-over-fake-tinubus-empowerment-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Warns Nigerians Over Fake Tinubu\u2019s Empowerment Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned Nigerians to beware of fake scam message being circulated by suspected fraudsters, requesting banking details for payment of \u201cN85,000 from Bola Tinubu empowerment\u201d and asking interested persons to call 07078309083.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling party described the said message as a scam and urged the general public to disregard it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued Tuesday in Abuja by the party&#8217;s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the party called on relevant security agencies to urgently identify and bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe All Progressives Congress wishes to alert the general public to a scam message being circulated by suspected fraudsters, requesting banking details for payment of \u201cN85,000 from Bola Tinubu empowerment\u201d and asking interested persons to call 07078309083.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is a scam, and we urge members of the public to disregard the message and refrain from calling the posted number or any numbers associated with the message.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dWe call on relevant security agencies to urgently identify and bring the perpetrators to justice.\u201d<\/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>By Myke Agunwa The All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned Nigerians to beware of fake scam message being circulated by suspected fraudsters, requesting banking details for payment of \u201cN85,000 from&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":84322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117816","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 - 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