{"id":11771,"date":"2022-06-16T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=11771"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T14:19:02","slug":"apc-convention-statistics-showing-votes-tinubu-got-per-state-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/apc-convention-statistics-showing-votes-tinubu-got-per-state-is-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Convention: Statistics showing votes Tinubu got per state is fake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim<\/strong>: A post<\/a> by Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), shows a breakdown of votes reportedly scored by the former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, in each state at the just concluded presidential primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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The claim is false. The election was a secret ballot and votes were not tallied according to states.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Following the emergence<\/a> of Bola Tinubu as the flagbearer of APC for the 2023 presidential election, some social media users including a chieftain of APC in Lagos State<\/a> have been circulating data to depict how delegates from each state voted for the former Lagos State governor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Tinubu during the primary polled 1271 votes<\/a> to clinch the ticket ahead of former minister of transportation Rotimi Amaechi, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmad Lawan and other candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spirit of victory, some of Mr Tinubu’s supporters shared data <\/a>to show the percentage of votes the former governor got from delegates from each state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screenshot of the purported data of how delegates voted for Tinubu<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The data which was broken into the six geopolitical zones had different states with different percentages of votes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some users believe the data to be genuine, others questioned Mr Igbokwe\u2019s source, prompting DUBAWA to fact-check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA discovered that only elected national and Ad-hoc delegates were qualified<\/a> to vote at the National convention. A total of 2, 260 delegates were accredited<\/a> for the election.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the video clips<\/a> of the election obtained by DUBAWA showed that the delegates cast their votes in any of the 40 ballot boxes made available at the convention ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of Ballot boxes at the APC convention ground<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA observed that none of the ballot boxes were dedicated to any state; hence it is difficult to determine the delegates that voted for each candidate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also observed that the election was a secret ballot where delegates were allowed to choose their preferred candidate without others knowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cambridge dictionary defines<\/a> secret ballot “as a method of voting in which each person writes their choice on a piece of paper so that no one else knows how they have voted.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A close observation of the video of the voting exercise for the APC presidential primary<\/a> shows that it is impossible to determine the percentage of people that voted for Tinubu in each state because the delegates were dropping their votes secretly in different ballots boxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The post showing a breakdown of how delegates in each state voted for Bola Tinubu is false. DUBAWA discovered that the election was a secret ballot and votes were not tallied on a state-by-state basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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