{"id":20231,"date":"2024-09-25T18:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20231"},"modified":"2024-09-25T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:07:07","slug":"is-apc-leading-with-212442-votes-from-results-collated-in-15-out-of-18-lgas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/is-apc-leading-with-212442-votes-from-results-collated-in-15-out-of-18-lgas\/","title":{"rendered":"Is APC leading with 212,442 votes from results collated in 15 out of 18 LGAs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLAIM: <\/strong>An X user, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/linhsense1\">@linhsense1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/linhsense1\/status\/1837842636037582899\">claimed<\/a> that the APC is leading with 212,442 votes after the collation of governorship election results from 15 out of 18 LGAs in Edo state. The tweet was made at 2:13 pm, a few minutes before the 16th LGA\u2019s result was announced. This claim also appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/6JhR5mohpkS8iCns\/?mibextid=xfxF2i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FINDINGS: <\/strong>Before the 16th LGA was announced, the total sum of results from 15 out of 18 LGAs <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thecableindex\/status\/1837842296324124887\">stood at<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>APC: 212,442<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PDP: 178,471<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LP:&nbsp; 11,232<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With two more LGAs left, it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thecableindex\/status\/1837844816555630621\">now stands<\/a> at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>APC: 244,549<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PDP: 195,954<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LP: 13,348<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"57\" data-attachment-id=\"20095\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/live-fact-check-dubawa-nfc-monitor-mis-disinformation-on-edo-governorship-election\/true-1-1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TRUE-1-1.png?fit=135%2C57&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,57\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"TRUE-1-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TRUE-1-1.png?fit=135%2C57&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TRUE-1-1.png?resize=135%2C57\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20095\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>VERDICT: <\/strong>CORRECT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SOURCES: <\/strong>The Cable Index, INEC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAIM: An X user, @linhsense1, claimed that the APC is leading with 212,442 votes after the collation of governorship election results from 15 out of 18 LGAs in Edo state. The tweet was made at 2:13 pm, a few minutes before the 16th LGA\u2019s result was announced. This claim also appeared on Facebook. FINDINGS: Before the 16th LGA was announced, the total sum of results from 15 out of 18 LGAs stood at: With two more LGAs left, it now stands at: VERDICT: CORRECT SOURCES: The Cable Index, INEC<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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],"tags":[1143,4355,4320,4356,1208,4354,4322,1205,1055],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3760],"class_list":["post-20231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-elections","category-facebook-checks","tag-edo","tag-edo-2024","tag-edo-decides","tag-edo-decides-2024","tag-edo-election","tag-edo-election-2024","tag-edo-election-candidate-profiles","tag-edo-politics","tag-edo-state"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5gj","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\/20231","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=20231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20232,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions\/20232"}],"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=20231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}