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Fraudster have reportedly opened up to 11 different Facebook accounts in the name of Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to te President on Foreign Affairs; and have been using the various accounts to dupe their unsuspecting Nigerians.
Dabiri-Erewa’s Special Assistant on Media, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday.
He stressed that his principal does not have any Facebook account and warned members of the public to be wary of any account linking Dabiri-Erewa on Facebook.
The statement read in part: “For the avoidance of doubts, some of the fake accounts says Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa of the House of Senate, National Assembly.
“Another one says: she is of Nigerian House of Representatives, She is `Special assistance’ to President Muhammadu Buhari, she is of Maryland Comprehensive Secondary school, Aso Villa Abuja, Nigeria with her various pictures adorning all the pages with minimum of 7,025 likes to 62,176 likes.
“All of these are fake and not from Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa. The Hon. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora is always available and members of the public can reach her on: [email protected] on issues pertaining to her office.
“It must be noted that while Hon. Dabiri-Erewa has reported severally to Face book, fake accounts keep popping up in her name again, urging Face book to look into such easy method of cloning peoples’ identity.
“The issue is already being handled by the security agencies to track down those behind creation of these fake accounts”