The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disowned several fake twitter handles purportedly owned by the Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele.
The apex bank in a statement signed by the Ag. Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor stated, “The attention of the (CBN) has been drawn to the existence of several twitter handles purportedly owned by the Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele.
We wish to inform members of the public, particularly members of the social media community that Mr. Emefiele currently has no twitter handle. We wish to state categorically therefore, that the twitter handles bearing the name and photographs of Mr. Emefiele are fake and targeted at misleading unsuspecting members of the public.
Accordingly, we wish to advise all members of the social media community and the general public to be wary of the fake accounts and discountenance whatever message conveyed therein”.

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