{"id":16619,"date":"2023-11-10T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=16619"},"modified":"2023-11-10T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T19:00:10","slug":"false-no-war-in-edo-ahead-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/false-no-war-in-edo-ahead-governorship-election\/","title":{"rendered":"False! No war in Edo ahead governorship election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim: A <\/strong>viral video<\/strong><\/a> shared by \u201cArea Papa Comedy\u201d on Facebook on\u00a0 Nov. 9, 2023, claimed that there was war in Imo state a few hours before the governorship election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDING: In a press conference <\/strong>broadcast<\/strong><\/a> on Arise News TV, Deputy Inspector General of Police Frank Mba said, \u201cImo is not a war zone, Imo is not on fire,\u201d while asking the media and other stakeholders to fact-check fake news. Also, there was no media report about war in Imo state at 7:00PM on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCES: Deputy Inspector General of Police, Frank Mba <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: A viral video shared by \u201cArea Papa Comedy\u201d on Facebook on\u00a0 Nov. 9, 2023, claimed that there was war in Imo state a few hours before the governorship election. FINDING: In a press conference broadcast on Arise News TV, Deputy Inspector General of Police Frank Mba said, \u201cImo is not a war zone, Imo is not on fire,\u201d while asking the media and other stakeholders to fact-check fake news. Also, there was no media report about war in Imo state at 7:00PM on Friday. VERDICT: INCORRECT SOURCES: Deputy Inspector General of Police, Frank Mba <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16620,"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":[5,437,3815],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-16619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-facebook-checks","category-homepage"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-4k3","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\/11\/War-in-Edo.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619","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=16619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16621,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions\/16621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16619"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=16619"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=16619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}