{"id":16751,"date":"2023-11-12T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=16751"},"modified":"2023-11-12T18:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:48:52","slug":"misleading-security-officers-not-apc-loyalists-beat-lp-representative-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/misleading-security-officers-not-apc-loyalists-beat-lp-representative-in-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading! Security officers, not APC loyalists, beat LP representative in Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: An X user, Mo-Mo (@Morris_<\/a>Monye), claimed that a Labour Party representative was \u201cbeaten up\u201d by miscreants suspected to be APC party loyalists at the Imo collation centre in the presence of some Nigerian policemen, and it was covered by national television stations present at the scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS: NFC watched available videos on TVC<\/a> and Channels TV<\/a> and also spoke with Tunde Ososanya of the B<\/a>BC, who revealed that a Labour Party agent, Calistus Ihejiagwa, was beaten up by security officers, and not APC thugs. Ihejiagwa fervently disrupted the collation proceeding when the Orlu LGA was about to be collated. Ihejiagwa had earlier filed a petition to the state\u2019s returning officer, Prof Abayomi Fashina, FUOYE\u2019s Vice Chancellor, who explained that his jurisdiction does not cover accepting petitions, and thus delaying the collation process for more than an hour.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCES: TVC, Channels TV, BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: An X user, Mo-Mo (@Morris_Monye), claimed that a Labour Party representative was \u201cbeaten up\u201d by miscreants suspected to be APC party loyalists at the Imo collation centre in the presence of some Nigerian policemen, and it was covered by national television stations present at the scene. FINDINGS: NFC watched available videos on TVC and Channels TV and also spoke with Tunde Ososanya of the BBC, who revealed that a Labour Party agent, Calistus Ihejiagwa, was beaten up by security officers, and not APC thugs. Ihejiagwa fervently disrupted the collation proceeding when the Orlu LGA was about to be collated. Ihejiagwa had earlier filed a petition to the state\u2019s returning officer, Prof Abayomi Fashina, FUOYE\u2019s Vice Chancellor, who explained that his jurisdiction does not cover accepting petitions, and thus delaying the collation process for more than an hour.\u00a0 VERDICT: MISLEADING. SOURCES: TVC, Channels TV, BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16752,"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":[5,1571,3812,3815,3797],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3760],"class_list":["post-16751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-live-updates"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-4mb","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\/11\/LP-party-and-APC.png?fit=860%2C520&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751","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=16751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16753,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751\/revisions\/16753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16751"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=16751"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=16751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}