{"id":13468,"date":"2023-02-23T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2023-02-23T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:15:35","slug":"labour-party-deployed-collation-agents-for-saturdays-election-contrary-to-viral-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/labour-party-deployed-collation-agents-for-saturdays-election-contrary-to-viral-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party deployed collation agents for Saturday\u2019s election contrary to viral claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim<\/strong>: A viral post on Twitter asserts that the Labour Party does not have agents for Saturday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Verdict<\/strong>: FALSE. INEC list of agents submitted by political parties for the 2023 general elections shows Labour Party has 134,874 PU agents and 4,859 collation agents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In less than three days, Nigerians across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory would file out at the various Polling Units (PU) nationwide to choose the next president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the elections, political parties deploy their agents to PUs to observe the electoral process, monitor the conduct of election officials, and safeguard the integrity of the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role of political party agents is crucial as they represent the interest of their party at the polling station, ensuring that the election is free, fair, and credible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In anticipation of the elections on Saturday, a viral tweet <\/a>by Pastor Who (@PastorMarvy) alleged that Labour Party will not have agents at most polling units during the elections on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post read, \u201cThe Labour Party will not have polling agents in over 75% of the polling units in the country. I mean, nobody will monitor their votes in 135,740 polling units on Saturday. I sincerely apologize to Gringory, Obidients and Labour Party for thinking that they are a serious entity!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the Twitter post by @PastorMarvy.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other users made a big fuss about this; for instance, Rinu Oduala (@SavvyRinu) tweeted<\/a> that this narrative that LP has insufficient agents to cover the election is the work of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She noted that LP has over 130,000 polling absents across Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPDAPC came together in their usual fashion today to spread fake news against LP.  The party has 130,000+ polling agents across the country.  To do this in barely eight months, give PO and the Obedient movement their flowers abeg!\u201d She wrote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The controversy and possible tension this could stir with the release election close by prompted us to verify this claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

To verify this claim, we checked the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) official Twitter handle, INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) and found that the commission posted<\/a> a summary of the list of polling unit and collation centres agents submitted by different parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of INEC\u2019s tweet.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The list reveals that the Labour Party has 134,874 PU agents and 4,859 Collation agents nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image of the list of polling units agents by INEC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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List of Collationg agents by INEC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In another development, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) endorsed the Labour Party Presidential candidate Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, for the February 25 presidential election as reported here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ADC also announced through its official Twitter handle African Democratic Congress (@ADCNig) following a coalition formation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post <\/a>reads, \u201cThe African Democratic Congress, ADC cordially invites you to her PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE’S ENDORSEMENT @PeterObi EVENT held today, February 20, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To watch the event LIVE, kindly follow our Facebook page African Democratic Congress HQ https:\/\/facebook.com\/ADCNig?mibextid=ZbWKwL<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If with this endorsement, ADC makes available its PU agents (96,043) and collation agents (3,626), then the LP will cover more grounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The claim that the Labour Party does not have agents for the Saturday election is false. INEC, through its official Twitter account, confirmed this by releasing a list of agents submitted by political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The researcher produced this fact-check per the <\/em>DUBAWA 2023 Kwame KariKari Fellowship<\/em><\/strong> partnership with <\/em>BONews <\/em><\/strong>to facilitate the ethos of \u201ctruth\u201d in journalism and enhance media literacy in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: A viral post on Twitter asserts that the Labour Party does not have agents for Saturday\u2019s election. Verdict: FALSE. INEC list of agents submitted by political parties for the 2023 general elections shows Labour Party has 134,874 PU agents and 4,859 collation agents.\u00a0\u00a0 Full Text In less than three days, Nigerians across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory would file out at the various Polling Units (PU) nationwide to choose the next president. During the elections, political parties deploy their agents to PUs to observe the electoral process, monitor the conduct of election officials, and safeguard the integrity of the election. The role of political party agents is crucial as they represent the interest of their party at the polling station, ensuring that the election is free, fair, and credible.  In anticipation of the elections on Saturday, a viral tweet by Pastor Who (@PastorMarvy) alleged that Labour Party will not have agents at most polling units during the elections on Saturday. The post read, \u201cThe Labour Party will not have polling agents in over 75% of the polling units in the country. I mean, nobody will monitor their votes in 135,740 polling units on Saturday. I sincerely apologize to Gringory, Obidients and Labour Party for thinking that they are a serious entity!\u201d Other users made a big fuss about this; for instance, Rinu Oduala (@SavvyRinu) tweeted that this narrative that LP has insufficient agents to cover the election is the work of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).\u00a0 She noted that LP has over 130,000 polling absents across Nigeria.  \u201cPDAPC came together in their usual fashion today to spread fake news against LP.  The party has 130,000+ polling agents across the country.  To do this in barely eight months, give PO and the Obedient movement their flowers abeg!\u201d She wrote.  The controversy and possible tension this could stir with the release election close by prompted us to verify this claim. Verification To verify this claim, we checked the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) official Twitter handle, INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) and found that the commission posted a summary of the list of polling unit and collation centres agents submitted by different parties. The list reveals that the Labour Party has 134,874 PU agents and 4,859 Collation agents nationwide.\u00a0 In another development, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) endorsed the Labour Party Presidential candidate Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, for the February 25 presidential election as reported here, here and here. The ADC also announced through its official Twitter handle African Democratic Congress (@ADCNig) following a coalition formation.  The post reads, \u201cThe African Democratic Congress, ADC cordially invites you to her PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE’S ENDORSEMENT @PeterObi EVENT held today, February 20, 2023. To watch the event LIVE, kindly follow our Facebook page African Democratic Congress HQ https:\/\/facebook.com\/ADCNig?mibextid=ZbWKwL. If with this endorsement, ADC makes available its PU agents (96,043) and collation agents (3,626), then the LP will cover more grounds.  Conclusion The claim that the Labour Party does not have agents for the Saturday election is false. INEC, through its official Twitter account, confirmed this by releasing a list of agents submitted by political parties. The researcher produced this fact-check per the DUBAWA 2023 Kwame KariKari Fellowship partnership with BONews to facilitate the ethos of \u201ctruth\u201d in journalism and enhance media literacy in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13469,"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],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3779],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3ve","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3779,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"isaiah-ude","display_name":"Isaiah Ude","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/electoral-officials.png?fit=700%2C380&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13470,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions\/13470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}