‘₦65,000 Grant Is A Scam’ – Atiku Denies Viral Empowerment Scheme

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has distanced himself from a purported financial aid initiative, ‘Atiku Grant by FG.’

The initiative championed by a group identifying as “Travelling Abroad Opportunities” promotes the so-called “Atiku Grant by FG” on social media platforms.

This alleged empowerment initiative claims to offer ₦65,000 to successful applicants who complete an application form and provide their name, account number, and bank details.

In a statement, however, signed and made available to Naija News, the Media Adviser to Atiku, Paul Ibe, warned that the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not currently involved in any empowerment program that promises ₦65,000 to applicants.

He stressed that no organisation is affiliated with or connected to the former Vice President conducting any such empowerment initiative.

The statement said: “It has come to our notice that a group claiming to be “Travelling Abroad Opportunities” has been advertising a so-called “Atiku Grant by FG” on social media. See link https://www.facebook.com/share/p/gZmjSkZtfPm9uBA1/

“The purported empowerment scheme is promising to hand out ₦65,000 to successful applicants after they must have filled out an application form and provided their name, account number, and bank.

“For the avoidance of doubt, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (2023), is not currently running an empowerment scheme that purports to give ₦65,000 to successful applicants. Also, there is no organisation related to, connected with, and associated with the former Vice President that is running an empowerment scheme by whatever shape or form.

“The so-called Atiku Grant by FG is a scam, which objective is to fleece unsuspecting Nigerians of their hard-earned money.

“This is to alert Nigerians not to participate in what is obviously a fraudulent scheme that seeks to hoodwink unsuspecting citizens into thinking that it is a scheme by Atiku Abubakar.

“Even if the Waziri Adamawa was going to embark on such a scheme, he would do so directly and not through a third party that is unknown to Nigerians.

“We hereby call on security agencies to investigate promoters of this criminal scheme and countless other schemes, which aim is to scam innocent citizens and bring them to book.”