{"id":13881,"date":"2023-03-02T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2023-03-02T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:20:59","slug":"false-biden-has-not-called-for-the-cancelling-of-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/false-biden-has-not-called-for-the-cancelling-of-the-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"FALSE! Biden has not called for the cancelling of presidential election\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: <\/strong>A <\/strong>screenshot of a purported AP headline shows the president of the USA, Joe Biden, calling for the cancellation of Nigeria\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDING: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A visit<\/strong><\/a> to the AP News website and the president’s official social media handles showed that Mr Biden had not made any utterance regarding the outcome of Nigeria\u2019s 2023 election. A keyword search on Google showed that the last time the US president spoke about Nigeria’s election was on February 23, when he called<\/strong><\/a> for a peaceful and transparent election in Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCE: <\/strong>Associated Press, Reuters News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE: <\/strong>01-03-2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: A screenshot of a purported AP headline shows the president of the USA, Joe Biden, calling for the cancellation of Nigeria\u2019s presidential election. FINDING:  A visit to the AP News website and the president’s official social media handles showed that Mr Biden had not made any utterance regarding the outcome of Nigeria\u2019s 2023 election. A keyword search on Google showed that the last time the US president spoke about Nigeria’s election was on February 23, when he called for a peaceful and transparent election in Nigeria.  VERDICT: INCORRECT.  SOURCE: Associated Press, Reuters News. DATE: 01-03-2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13882,"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-13881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3BT","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\/03\/Biden-joe-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881","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=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13884,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions\/13884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}