{"id":13740,"date":"2023-02-26T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=13740"},"modified":"2023-02-26T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T19:27:18","slug":"false-obasanjo-did-not-storm-inec-collation-centre-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/false-obasanjo-did-not-storm-inec-collation-centre-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"FALSE! Obasanjo did not storm INEC collation centre in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLAIM: <\/strong>Viral WhatsApp message and Igbo Times Magazine on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DrYusufDattiAhmed1\/posts\/pfbid0vSGjZHoHAquSPkZSaYiuhYZBvhqGWFe7UB2gH9Zvqs37hZpJ9qZarqj5AiGqwYtyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> claim former President Olusegun Obasanjo stormed INEC\u2019s collation centre in Abuja with election results from the 36 states in Nigeria.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FINDING<\/strong>: A Premium Times reporter at the collation centre, Qosim Suleiman, noted that the former president was not there.&nbsp; He also shared picture evidence of what the collation centre looks like currently, revealing those present.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A reverse image search also showed one of the images shared via Twitter was from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2019\/03\/15\/atiku-obasanjo-meet-behind-closed-doors-after-presidential-election\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meeting between Atiku and Obasanjo <\/a>reported by Channels Television. The collation of results is still ongoing.<\/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=\"12168\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/video-shot-in-ghana-used-to-depict-support-for-atiku\/false-3-15\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FALSE-3.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-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FALSE-3.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FALSE-3.png?resize=132%2C55\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12168\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f51616\"><strong>VERDICT:<\/strong> INCORRECT\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong> Premium Times reporter and Reverse image search<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DATE: <\/strong>26\/02\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAIM: Viral WhatsApp message and Igbo Times Magazine on Facebook claim former President Olusegun Obasanjo stormed INEC\u2019s collation centre in Abuja with election results from the 36 states in Nigeria.\u00a0 FINDING: A Premium Times reporter at the collation centre, Qosim Suleiman, noted that the former president was not there.&nbsp; He also shared picture evidence of what the collation centre looks like currently, revealing those present.&nbsp; A reverse image search also showed one of the images shared via Twitter was from a meeting between Atiku and Obasanjo reported by Channels Television. The collation of results is still ongoing. VERDICT: INCORRECT\u00a0 SOURCE: Premium Times reporter and Reverse image search DATE: 26\/02\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13741,"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-13740","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-3zC","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\/Obasanjo-Olusegun.png?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740","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=13740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13742,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740\/revisions\/13742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13740"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=13740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}