{"id":13693,"date":"2023-02-26T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T12:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=13693"},"modified":"2023-02-26T13:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T12:47:02","slug":"inec-did-not-extend-elections-in-16-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/inec-did-not-extend-elections-in-16-states\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC did not extend elections in 16 states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLAIM: <\/strong>WhatsApp and Twitter users claims that INEC has extended elections in 16 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FINDING: <\/strong>Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, clarified that the news is not from the commission. Additionally, INEC\u2019s national Chairman on voter&#8217;s education, Festus Okoye, debunked the report as fake. He stated that \u201cINEC did not extend the voting period in 16 States. The narrative is fake, and the public should disregard it entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" height=\"55\" data-attachment-id=\"12123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/image-from-tanzania-falsely-used-to-depict-boko-haram-attack\/false-2-15\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FALSE-2.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-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FALSE-2.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FALSE-2.png?resize=132%2C55\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12123\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#fc1b1b\"><strong>VERDICT: <\/strong>INCORRECT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SOURCE: <\/strong>INEC&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DATE: <\/strong>26\/02\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAIM: WhatsApp and Twitter users claims that INEC has extended elections in 16 states. FINDING: Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, clarified that the news is not from the commission. Additionally, INEC\u2019s national Chairman on voter&#8217;s education, Festus Okoye, debunked the report as fake. He stated that \u201cINEC did not extend the voting period in 16 States. The narrative is fake, and the public should disregard it entirely.\u201d VERDICT: INCORRECT SOURCE: INEC&nbsp; DATE: 26\/02\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13545,"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":[5,1571,3797],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3760],"class_list":["post-13693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-live-updates"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3yR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3760,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"nigerian-fact-checkers-coalition-1","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\/INEC-vote-1.png?fit=768%2C384&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693","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=13693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13694,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions\/13694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}