{"id":20763,"date":"2024-11-15T16:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20763"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:18:31","slug":"true-over-2-million-voters-will-decide-ondos-next-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/true-over-2-million-voters-will-decide-ondos-next-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"True, over 2 million voters will decide Ondo\u2019s next governor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: An X handle, @ONDO4LUCKY, claimed<\/a> that over 2 million voters in Ondo state will decide who becomes their next governor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS: <\/strong>The NFC found several reports<\/a> quoting Ms Oluwatoyin Babalola, the Ondo state\u2019s Resident Electoral Commission (REC) chairperson, stating<\/a> that 2,053,061 registered voters would participate in the forthcoming governorship poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the election preparations, the State REC disclosed this at the Commission\u2019s Headquarters in Akure on Oct. 5, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

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

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

FACT CHECK AUTHOR: Salihu, Shola Taofeek<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

CLAIM: An X handle, @ONDO4LUCKY, claimed that over 2 million voters in Ondo state will decide who becomes their next governor. FINDINGS: The NFC found several reports quoting Ms Oluwatoyin Babalola, the Ondo state\u2019s Resident Electoral Commission (REC) chairperson, stating that 2,053,061 registered voters would participate in the forthcoming governorship poll. During the election preparations, the State REC disclosed this at the Commission\u2019s Headquarters in Akure on Oct. 5, 2024. VERDICT: CORRECT SOURCES: PUNCH and Daily Trust DATE: 15\/11\/2024  FACT CHECK AUTHOR: Salihu, Shola Taofeek EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare & Opeyemi Kehinde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20729,"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":[1571,437,3812,3815,3797,16],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-20763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-facebook-checks","category-headline","category-homepage","category-live-updates","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5oT","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\/11\/Ondo-election.png?fit=650%2C450&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20763","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=20763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20764,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20763\/revisions\/20764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20763"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20763"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}