ELECTIONS
Disclaimer: These fact-checks were done on the spot and were based on the information available at that time. Areas where there has been new information have been updated with the tagline: CORRECTION
It should be pointed out that the publisher of the news, The Republican News, routinely publishes completely fabricated news as well as half-truths. We have done a number of fact-checks from stories on the website and they have mostly turned out to be FALSE!
Looking through official websites and press releases of both the CIA and US Embassy in Nigeria, there is no evidence that the CIA made any of the above statements. An analysis of past statements from the CIA also makes this very unlikely to have come from the CIA.