{"id":20187,"date":"2024-09-24T16:55:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20187"},"modified":"2024-09-24T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:55:27","slug":"labour-partys-olumide-akpata-has-not-withdrawn-from-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/labour-partys-olumide-akpata-has-not-withdrawn-from-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party\u2019s Olumide Akpata has not withdrawn from the race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM:\u00a0 <\/strong>A viral press statement claims the Labour Party\u2019s Olumide Akpata has withdrawn from Saturday\u2019s governorship election and endorsed the PDP\u2019s candidate. It is being shared on Facebook<\/a> and X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS:  <\/strong>Checks show the statement was forged using one of the public statements released and signed by Mr. Akpata. The statement also carries two different dates. On the upper part reads 20th September 2024, while the bottom part reads July 29, 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zekeri Idris Junior, head of the Labour Party\u2019s campaign media team, told NFC that the viral statement was not authored by Akpata noting that the claim is false. He added that the party\u2019s candidate is still in the race. <\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCE: <\/strong>Labour Party\u2019s campaign media team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zekeri Idris Junior, head of the Labour Party\u2019s campaign media team, told NFC that the viral statement was not authored by Akpata noting that the claim is false. He added that the party\u2019s candidate is still in the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20157,"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":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_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":[1571,5,437,443],"tags":[1143,4355,4320,4356,1208,4354,298],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-20187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-elections","category-facebook-checks","category-quick-checks","tag-edo","tag-edo-2024","tag-edo-decides","tag-edo-decides-2024","tag-edo-election","tag-edo-election-2024","tag-election"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5fB","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\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-22-at-13.53.52_a6ffc263.jpg?fit=940%2C788&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187","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=20187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20188,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187\/revisions\/20188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20187"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20187"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}