{"id":27151,"date":"2020-07-09T01:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27151"},"modified":"2020-07-09T01:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:02:39","slug":"it-is-false-that-osinbajo-got-n4b-from-magu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27151","title":{"rendered":"It is false that Osinbajo got N4b from Magu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>Laolu Akande<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Office of the Vice President<br \/>\nVP OSINBAJO WILL NOT BE DISTRACTED BY CAMPAIGNS OF LIES &amp; CALUMNY<br \/>\nThe attention of the Office of the Vice President has been drawn to a series of tweets and online publications by PointBlank News and Newsreel.com.ng today 8th July 2020, credited to the same person, one Jackson Ude.<br \/>\nIn essence, Ude\u2019s story is that \u201cembattled former Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, allegedly embezzled over N39 billion and gave Vice President Yemi Osinabjo (sic) N4 billion, after the VP gave instructions to him to release some of the recovered loots\u2026\u201d The same Jackson Ude has also been circulating a video on YouTube with a female commentator, peddling the same lies.<br \/>\nWith all emphasis at our disposal, let it be firmly stated that these are totally false and baseless fabrications purporting to reflect goings-on at the Probe Panel investigating Mr. Ibrahim Magu. They are indeed completely absurd in every respect.<br \/>\nSadly, such mindless, vicious and reckless publications have now become the preferred tool of unscrupulous and reprobate elements in our society who are procured with monetary inducement to peddle blatant falsehood, tarnish the image of upright public officials and mislead unsuspecting Nigerians.<br \/>\nVice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, will of course not be distracted by these obvious campaigns of lies and calumny. The online publications, being criminally defamatory in nature, have been referred to the relevant law enforcement agencies for investigation and necessary action.<br \/>\nLaolu Akande<br \/>\nSenior Special Assistant to the President<br \/>\non Media and Publicity<br \/>\nOffice of the Vice President<br \/>\n8th July 202<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Office of the Vice President VP OSINBAJO WILL NOT BE DISTRACTED BY CAMPAIGNS OF LIES &amp; CALUMNY The attention of the Office of the Vice President has been drawn to a series of tweets and online publications by PointBlank News and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,342,116],"class_list":["post-27151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-magu","tag-n4b","tag-osinbajo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}