{"id":13628,"date":"2023-02-25T16:28:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2023-02-25T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:28:52","slug":"contrary-to-claims-voting-currently-ongoing-in-igweocha-rivers-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/contrary-to-claims-voting-currently-ongoing-in-igweocha-rivers-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrary to claims, voting currently ongoing in Igweocha, Rivers State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM:<\/strong> Simon Ekpa, a pro-Biafran agitator, claims<\/a> voters are not out in Igweocha part of Rivers State to vote due to the IPOB\u2019s sit-at-home order.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDING:\u00a0 <\/strong>An election observer affiliated with the Center for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) in the Igweocha area debunked the news and confirmed that voting is ongoing. <\/strong>NFC obtained visual evidence showing <\/a>that the election was ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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VERDICT: <\/strong>INCORRECT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOURCE: <\/strong>CJID Observer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE: <\/strong>25\/02\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: Simon Ekpa, a pro-Biafran agitator, claims voters are not out in Igweocha part of Rivers State to vote due to the IPOB\u2019s sit-at-home order.\u00a0 FINDING:\u00a0 An election observer affiliated with the Center for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) in the Igweocha area debunked the news and confirmed that voting is ongoing. NFC obtained visual evidence showing that the election was ongoing. VERDICT: INCORRECT SOURCE: CJID Observer DATE: 25\/02\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13629,"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":[3744],"class_list":["post-13628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3xO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3744,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"nigerian-fact-checkers-coalition","display_name":"Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition","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\/Voting-rivers.jpg?fit=720%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628","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=13628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13630,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions\/13630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}