{"id":10344,"date":"2021-12-05T21:44:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2021-12-05T21:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T20:50:35","slug":"video-of-halifa-sallah-accepting-results-dated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/video-of-halifa-sallah-accepting-results-dated\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of Halifa Sallah Accepting Results Dated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Claim: A viral video purportedly shows PDOIS candidate, Halifa Sallah, accepting the results so far declared by the IEC.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cCounting was done on the spot and all sides knew the results before the IEC. So if there are technicalities, they are just technicalities but the fact is already known. We are confident that those facts are incontestable and it is incontrovertible as far as we are concerned that the president-elect, Barrow, won,\u201d <\/p><cite>Mr Sallah said in the video.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" height=\"55\" data-attachment-id=\"10340\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/gambia-election-2021-live-fact-check-day-2\/false-9-7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/FALSE-9.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"132,55\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FALSE-9\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/FALSE-9.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/FALSE-9.png?resize=132%2C55\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10340\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f41216;color:#fffff9\"><strong>False<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Verification<\/strong>: Dubawa found the video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nyIwKlIuDKs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a> through a Yandex search. We found one posted in 2017 by R Dee with the caption \u201cHalifa Sallah on yaya jammeh&#8217;s speak\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pdois_gambia\/status\/1467581762171719686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDOIS has debunked the claim<\/a>. The party said the video is from 2016 and is unrelated to this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, Jaha Dukureh, the co-chair of the Youth Interparty Committee of the PDOIS says the video is dated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe video is from the 2016 presidential election. Halifa Sallah did not publish any statement or video pertaining to the current occurrence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim: A viral video purportedly shows PDOIS candidate, Halifa Sallah, accepting the results so far declared by the IEC.&nbsp; \u201cCounting was done on the spot and all sides knew the results before the IEC. So if there are technicalities, they are just technicalities but the fact is already known. We are confident that those facts are incontestable and it is incontrovertible as far as we are concerned that the president-elect, Barrow, won,\u201d Mr Sallah said in the video. False Verification: Dubawa found the video on YouTube through a Yandex search. We found one posted in 2017 by R Dee with the caption \u201cHalifa Sallah on yaya jammeh&#8217;s speak\u201d. PDOIS has debunked the claim. The party said the video is from 2016 and is unrelated to this year\u2019s election. Furthermore, Jaha Dukureh, the co-chair of the Youth Interparty Committee of the PDOIS says the video is dated.&nbsp; \u201cThe video is from the 2016 presidential election. Halifa Sallah did not publish any statement or video pertaining to the current occurrence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[5,1571,2815],"tags":[2831,2902],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[873],"class_list":["post-10344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-the-gambia","tag-halifa-sallah","tag-independent-electoral-commission-iec"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-2GQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":873,"user_id":10,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dubawa","display_name":"Dubawa","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f70a877f6d81734de0ca299eabb33d20687f41f5a4cb83ae8d754fc9412ee293?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":"Strengthening Investigative Journalism for the fight against corruption in Nigeria."}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Video-of-Halifa-Sallah-Accepting-Results-Dated.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}