Breaking: APC shuts down website over alleged hacking

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that its official website, apc.com.ng, has been hacked by what it termed desperate people with evil intentions.

Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the national publicity secretary of the party, raised an alarm over the alleged hacking in a press release on Saturday, January 12, The Punch reports.

The party said the alleged hackers had posted unauthorised content posted on its pages and that steps are being taken to strengthen security on the site.

“Our attention has just been drawn to the fact that the APC’s official website, apc.com.ng has been hacked with unauthorised content posted on our pages," Onilu said in the release.

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“I have instructed that the site be taken down. Steps are underway to clean it up, strengthen the security, and restore it as soon as possible.

“We won’t allow the desperate people to succeed in their evil plots."

When Legit.ng visited the website at the time of reporting this story, there was an inscription stating: Our website is under maintenance.”

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Below is a screen grab of the website during the period it was reportedly shut due to alleged hacking:

Meanwhile, the national coordinator of the Non-Indigenes Association of Nigeria for Atiku/Obi Presidency, Lot Ninzom Jonathan, has said the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will bring to an end the incessant killings arising from herdsmen/farmers clashes in the North, as well as poverty currently ravaging the country, says the national coordinator of the Non-Indigenes Association of Nigeria for Atiku/Obi Presidency, Lot Ninzom Jonathan.

Jonathan made the comment in Bayelsa state during the inauguration of the state chapter of the association on Friday, January 11, Daily Trust reports.

Legit.ng gathers that Jonathan lamented that the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government lacks strategies that will return the nation’s economy to a progressive track.

He expressed confidence that the coming of Atiku and Obi, with their business acumen and in-depth knowledge of the economy, will bring about policies aimed at boosting the nation's economy.

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