{"id":20190,"date":"2024-09-24T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20190"},"modified":"2024-09-24T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:08:04","slug":"did-obaseki-say-edo-election-is-a-do-or-die-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/did-obaseki-say-edo-election-is-a-do-or-die-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Obaseki say Edo election is a “do or die affair”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: <\/strong>An X user, @CrownPrinceCom2 claimed<\/a> that the governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki said the Edo election is a \u201cdo or die affair.\u201d\u00a0 This claim was also shared on Facebook as seen here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS<\/strong>:\u00a0 According to TheCable, Obaseki referred<\/a> to the Edo election as a \u201cdo or die affair\u201d while speaking at the grand finale rally of the People’s Democratic Party on September 13 in the Ekenwan area of Benin City, the state capital. In a follow-up interview with Channels TV, the governor reiterated<\/a> the statement and expressed no regret for making it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

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

According to TheCable, Obaseki referred to the Edo election as a \u201cdo or die affair\u201d while speaking at the grand finale rally of the People’s Democratic Party on September 13 in the Ekenwan area of Benin City, the state capital. In a follow-up interview with Channels TV, the governor reiterated the statement and expressed no regret for making it.<\/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":[1143,4355,4320,1208,4354],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-20190","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-election","tag-edo-election-2024"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5fE","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\/20190","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=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20192,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions\/20192"}],"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=20190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}