{"id":13846,"date":"2023-02-28T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=13846"},"modified":"2023-02-28T19:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:02:18","slug":"president-muhammadu-buhari-did-not-approve-president-obasanjos-request-for-election-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/president-muhammadu-buhari-did-not-approve-president-obasanjos-request-for-election-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"President Muhammadu Buhari did not approve President Obasanjo\u2019s request for election cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: <\/strong>A Facebook user claims<\/a> President Muhammadu Buhari has approved former president Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s letter to cancel the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDING: <\/strong>Former president Olusegun Obasanjo issued a statement<\/a> on 27 February, appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to cancel elections that do not pass the credibility and transparency test. Responding to this, a statement<\/a> by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said Obasanjo\u2019s letter was a \u201cwillful incitement of violence\u201d and asked him not to truncate the elections with his \u201cinciting, self-serving and provocative letter.\u201d  The statement added that anyone dissatisfied with the outcome of the elections should follow the necessary legal procedures. At no point did President Buhari approve President Obasanjo\u2019s request to cancel the election.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCE: <\/strong>Federal ministry of information and culture <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE: <\/strong>28\/03\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: A Facebook user claims President Muhammadu Buhari has approved former president Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s letter to cancel the election. FINDING: Former president Olusegun Obasanjo issued a statement on 27 February, appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to cancel elections that do not pass the credibility and transparency test. Responding to this, a statement by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said Obasanjo\u2019s letter was a \u201cwillful incitement of violence\u201d and asked him not to truncate the elections with his \u201cinciting, self-serving and provocative letter.\u201d  The statement added that anyone dissatisfied with the outcome of the elections should follow the necessary legal procedures. At no point did President Buhari approve President Obasanjo\u2019s request to cancel the election. VERDICT: False SOURCE: Federal ministry of information and culture  DATE: 28\/03\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13847,"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":[5,437,3797],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3760],"class_list":["post-13846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-facebook-checks","category-live-updates"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3Bk","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\/Buhari.jpg?fit=1080%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846","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=13846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13849,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions\/13849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}