{"id":20759,"date":"2024-11-15T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20759"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T13:57:24","slug":"true-olusola-ebiseni-removed-as-lp-candidate-ahead-of-ondo-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/true-olusola-ebiseni-removed-as-lp-candidate-ahead-of-ondo-governorship-election\/","title":{"rendered":"True, Olusola Ebiseni removed as LP candidate ahead of Ondo governorship election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: A Facebook page, EIEtv<\/a>, has claimed<\/a> that the Court of Appeal in Abuja has removed Olusola Ebiseni as the Labour Party\u2019s candidate in the upcoming Ondo State governorship election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS: <\/strong>The NFC found several news<\/a> reports<\/a> from November 13 stating that the Court of Appeal had disqualified Ebiseni, despite the Federal High Court of Abuja ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise<\/a> him as the Labour Party\u2019s (LP) candidate. The LP has, however, called the disqualification of its candidate a lie<\/a>.  Ebiseni, during an interview<\/a> on Channels Television, says the governorship race is between his party and the All Progressives Congress (APC), suggesting his candidacy. However, in an updated list of candidates published by the INEC, the LP\u2019s candidates\u2019 names are marked in red<\/a> with the remark \u201cCourt Order.\u201d Tope Akanmu, the Assistant Director of Voters\u2019 Education, INEC Ondo, refused to comment on whether Ebiseni remains the party\u2019s flagbearer because it\u2019s a judiciary matter. However, he noted that the ballot paper carries party logos, so the party remains part of the governorship race.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCES: Daily Trust, PUNCH and INEC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE: <\/strong>15\/11\/2024 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Muktar Balogun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: A Facebook page, EIEtv, has claimed that the Court of Appeal in Abuja has removed Olusola Ebiseni as the Labour Party\u2019s candidate in the upcoming Ondo State governorship election. FINDINGS: The NFC found several news reports from November 13 stating that the Court of Appeal had disqualified Ebiseni, despite the Federal High Court of Abuja ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise him as the Labour Party\u2019s (LP) candidate. The LP has, however, called the disqualification of its candidate a lie.  Ebiseni, during an interview on Channels Television, says the governorship race is between his party and the All Progressives Congress (APC), suggesting his candidacy. However, in an updated list of candidates published by the INEC, the LP\u2019s candidates\u2019 names are marked in red with the remark \u201cCourt Order.\u201d Tope Akanmu, the Assistant Director of Voters\u2019 Education, INEC Ondo, refused to comment on whether Ebiseni remains the party\u2019s flagbearer because it\u2019s a judiciary matter. However, he noted that the ballot paper carries party logos, so the party remains part of the governorship race. VERDICT: CORRECT SOURCES: Daily Trust, PUNCH and INEC DATE: 15\/11\/2024  FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Muktar Balogun EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13705,"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":"default","_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":[1571,5,437,3812,3815,3797,16],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-20759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-elections","category-facebook-checks","category-headline","category-homepage","category-live-updates","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5oP","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\/2023\/02\/Labour_Party_Nigeria_logo.webp?fit=335%2C298&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759","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=20759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20760,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions\/20760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}