CLAIM: Several X users, including @Onsogbu, @RealFikayomi66, and @RajiDraj, shared posts here, here, and here on August 14, 2026, claiming that the police arrested a fake party agent, a fake collation agent, and two election observers in Ila Orangun who were recruited by the Accord Party.
Similar claims were found on Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
FINDINGS: The posts were shared on Osun Guber election eve, August 14, 2026.
The INEC Manual for Election Officials states that collation officers and election observers are deployed and perform their election-related duties only on election day.
Therefore, the claim that individuals were arrested on election eve “posing as fake collation agents or election observers” raises questions of procedural inconsistency, as these roles would not yet have been operational in the field.
The video attached to the posts shows a crowd, police personnel, and some persons being taken away in vans. However, the location does not appear to be a polling unit or voting centre.
Nothing in the video identifies those arrested as fake collation agents or election observers, nor does it establish any connection between them and Accord Party.
In addition, no credible outlet has reported the incident as of the time of this publication.
VERDICT: Misleading.
SOURCE: INEC electoral guidelines, X pages
DATE: 15/08/2026.
FACT CHECK AUTHOR: Blessing Muonwe
EDITOR(S) Bamas Victoria & Ajibola Amzat