Claim: Peter Obi won 19 states in the just-concluded presidential elections. Verdict: False Context: A post on Twitter and Facebook went viral, claiming the announcement of the presidential election result by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, won the election with 19 states according to...
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FACT CHECK: Will INEC reconfiguration of BVAS erase presidential election data?
In the last few days, there has been news going around that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wants to reconfigure the Bimordal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS). There are insinuations that the configuration will erase all the data on the system in preparation for the gubernatorial and state assembly elections. Similarly, the BVAS configuration has...
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FACT CHECK: Is Ireti Kingibe the first elected female senator for FCT?
On March 6, 2023, Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, and the second runner-up in the just-concluded presidential election, met with the newly elected senator for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe. Shortly after the meeting, Peter Obi posted on Twitter that she just became the first elected female senator for the...
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FACT CHECK: Does Obio Akpor LGA result on INEC portal differ from what was announced?
A Twitter user accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), of electoral malpractice. According to the handle, the Obio Akpor LGA result uploaded by the electoral commission on the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) differed from that which was announced by the commission. Verification INEC on Tuesday, February 28, 2022, announced results from Rivers state....
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FACT CHECK: Did Datti say Labour Party won 19 states as Fani-Kayode claims?
Femi Fani-Kayode, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, quoted a tweet allegedly made by the Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed. According to Fani-Kayode, Datti posted a rumoured result from the recently conducted 2023 presidential election connoting that his party supposedly won the conducted election. Fani-Kayode called for the arrest...
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FACT CHECK: Does video show Nigerians protesting Tinubu’s victory in the UK?
A video of people chanting “give us Obi” has been shared on social media alongside claims that it shows Nigerians abroad protesting against the victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress in the February 25 presidential election. The 2023 general elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which took place in...
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FACT SHIELD: How to avoid falling for fake election results online
The eagerly anticipated Nigerian 2023 presidential and national assembly elections, which were scheduled for Saturday, February 25, have since taken place. According to reports, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials arrived late to several polling units, and this caused the voting process to start very slowly around the nation. As a result, some of...
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FACT CHECK: Image does not show Ekiti election results manipulation as LP spokesperson claims?
Kenneth Okonkwo, the spokesperson of the Labour Party Presidential campaign team, on Sunday, February 26, 2023, challenged the Ekiti state result of the presidential elections. Okonkwo who posted an alleged screenshot of the election result uploaded by CivicHive claimed that the date of the result proves that it was uploaded days before the election, hence,...
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FACT CHECK: Does Ghana attach candidate’s image to ballot papers as Peter Obi claimed?
On February 25, 2023, shortly after voting, Peter Obi the presidential candidate of the Labour Party granted a virtual interview on Arise TV. While making a remark on the report that some of the ballot papers in some parts of the country do not have his party logo or acronym, he said “well, we expected...
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FACT CHECK: TikTok video showing INEC declaring Peter Obi winner of the election is fake
With election results being compiled around the country from the just concluded general elections, many fake results and false announcements of results have begun to go viral. One such false viral announcement is the declaration of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, as the winner of the presidential election. In the viral video which...