{"id":20217,"date":"2024-09-25T14:35:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20217"},"modified":"2024-09-25T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:35:07","slug":"did-edo-pdp-hold-press-conference-to-announce-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/did-edo-pdp-hold-press-conference-to-announce-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Edo PDP hold press conference to announce election results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM<\/strong>: An X user, @hon_sadiq claimed<\/a> that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) held a press conference and announced Edo election results. The claim was also shared on Facebook as seen here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS: Checks by the NFC show that the PDP leadership addressed the press in the early hours of Sunday, Sept 22 in Benin city, Edo state. During the press conference, the governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintiri reeled out <\/a>results reportedly collated by the agents of the party in some Local Government Areas of the state. However,\u00a0 he later clarified<\/a> that he did not announce results but only informed the public of the exact figures from the party’s agents.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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

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

CLAIM: An X user, @hon_sadiq claimed that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) held a press conference and announced Edo election results. The claim was also shared on Facebook as seen here and here. FINDINGS: Checks by the NFC show that the PDP leadership addressed the press in the early hours of Sunday, Sept 22 in Benin city, Edo state. During the press conference, the governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintiri reeled out results reportedly collated by the agents of the party in some Local Government Areas of the state. However,\u00a0 he later clarified that he did not announce results but only informed the public of the exact figures from the party’s agents.\u00a0 VERDICT: CORRECT  SOURCES: PulseNG, The Cable<\/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":[1143,4355,298],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3760],"class_list":["post-20217","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-election"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5g5","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\/20217","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=20217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20219,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20217\/revisions\/20219"}],"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=20217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20217"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20217"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}