On September 26, 2024, an X user (formerly Twitter) tweeted and attached a video that a group had accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of using tactics to rig the just-concluded Edo governorship election. Attached to the tweet is a 9-minute, 49-second-long video shows two Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa) Election analysts...
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FACT CHECK: How true is the claim by Adewunmi, Gatefield’s lead strategist, about CDD’s fact check?
Adewunmi Emoruwa, a lead strategist at Gatefield, has claimed that the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) West Africa, wrongly labelled a proven fact as false. In a tweet posted on Monday, August 21, 2023, Emoruwa said, “CDD West Africa falsely claimed an actual fact was false using two false equivalencies that showed a lack...
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FACT CHECK: Is Tinubu and his family entitled to unlimited medical benefits as the former governor of Lagos state?
A Twitter user claimed that Bola Tinubu, being a former governor of Lagos state, is entitled to unlimited medical benefits under the ‘State Governors Pension Law of 2007’. The Twitter user added that all members of Tinubu’s family, not just his immediate family, are also entitled to this privilege. ‘This means that everytime he flies...
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FACT CHECK: Did African Union reject Bola Tinubu as president-elect?
An image showing African leaders has been shared online alongside claims that it shows the African Union (AU) rejecting Bola Tinubu as the president-elect of Nigeria. According to the post, the AU also banned the exportation of goods and services from Nigeria to all other African partners. Background The General Elections in Nigeria comprise the...
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FACT CHECK: Does video show BVAS syndicate as Dele Momodu claims?
On the heels of the just concluded Nigerian presidential elections, multiple social media users, including the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, have shared a video showing the Nigerian police arresting some individuals. The police had also confiscated some electoral materials like laptops, desktop computers, including the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS)...
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FACT CHECK: Did EFCC officials storm Tinubu’s polling unit in Lagos?
Ahead of the presidential and senate elections, multiple posts on social media, as well as online media agencies, have claimed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials stormed Bola Tinubu’s polling unit. Bola Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Party (APC), and his polling unit is ward C PU 085...
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FACT CHECK: Did INEC omit Labour Party logo from ballot papers in Lagos, Ondo? Here is what we know
Barely 24 hours before Nigeria’s general elections, there have been reports circulating on social media that the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) did not include the Labour Party Logo on some ballot papers to be used for elections on February 25. According to the reports, the ballot papers for the National Assembly elections did not have...
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FACT SHIELD: Did you know you can be jailed 12 months for selling your vote?
With Nigeria’s most important election less than 24 hours away, many people worry about vote-buying and the effect it would have on the election. What is vote-buying? Vote buying is an economic exchange between an electoral candidate and the electorate in which the candidate pays the voter an amount of money or any other material...
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FACT SHIELD: 10 ways to land in jail on election day
As we prepare to cast our votes on Saturday, it is essential that we continue to be law-abiding citizens. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. To help you stay within the law, the CDD election war room has compiled a list of behaviours and actions that the law considers to be crimes on election...
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Online Operations: Nigeria’s 2023 Social Media Election Campaigns
The number of active social media users in Nigeria has risen from 27 million, in 2019, to 36 million ahead of the 2023 elections. But given the challenge of prevailing misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, and the way such disinformation can permeate into the media more generally1, greater access to online information does...
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