{"id":20212,"date":"2024-09-25T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T08:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20212"},"modified":"2024-09-25T09:56:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T08:56:39","slug":"did-tinubu-ask-edo-voters-to-reject-obaseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/did-tinubu-ask-edo-voters-to-reject-obaseki\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Tinubu ask Edo voters to reject Obaseki?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: <\/strong>An X user, @idofoi posted<\/a> a video purportedly showing Tinubu asking Edo voters to reject Obaseki in Saturday\u2019s Edo gubernatorial poll. Some Facebook pages have also been seen amplifying the claim as seen here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS: <\/strong>A Google Reverse Image search conducted on the keyframes obtained from the video shows<\/a> that the footage has been online since September 15, 2020, during the last gubernatorial election in Edo state. An earlier version of the video originally posted by TVC shows Tinubu addressing residents of Edo State urging them not to vote for Obaseki, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n

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

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

A Google Reverse Image search conducted on the keyframes obtained from the video shows that the footage has been online since September 15, 2020, during the last gubernatorial election in Edo state. An earlier version of the video originally posted by TVC shows Tinubu addressing residents of Edo State urging them not to vote for Obaseki, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate at the time.\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":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3760],"class_list":["post-20212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-elections","category-facebook-checks","category-quick-checks"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5g0","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\/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\/20212","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=20212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20213,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212\/revisions\/20213"}],"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=20212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20212"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20212"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}