Atiku Campaign Organisation disowns online grant scheme
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by emmanuel oloniruha8 the atiku abubakar presidential campaign organisation apco has disowned a purported pan to disburse grants to unsuspecting nigerians1 the organisation in a statement on thursday in abuja said that its attention had been drawn to an on-going scheme that it purported to disburse grants to nigerians1 information available to us reveal that the scheme code-named atiku grant disbursement programme see link is asking unsuspecting members of the public to contribute a certain amount of money which will be multiplied for them after they have downloaded a particular social media application1 the apco disclaims this scheme and any other in such manner1 for the avoidance of doubt the atiku presidential campaign organisation is not in any way involved in the scheme or any other in such manner and neither did it give a proxy authorisation1 it said the officialverified social media handles of the presidential candidate of the peoples democratic party are www.atiku.org blog www.facebook.comatiku.org facebook www.twitter.comatiku twitter and www.instagram.comaatiku instagram1 the organisation advised members of the public to discountenance communication that did not emanate from any of these social media accounts1 it also advised them to refrain from participating in any online scheme that aimed at defrauding innocent nigerians and with the ulterior motive to embarrass the presidential campaign of atiku abubakar1