CLAIM: An X user, @JBAdamu, claimed<\/a> that 34,000 police officers were deployed for the Ondo election<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n FINDINGS: <\/strong>During an interview with Channels TV<\/a>, the deputy inspector-general of police (DIG) coordinating election security, Abiodun Alabi, disclosed that the Nigeria Police Force deployed 34,000 police officers for Saturday’s off-cycle gubernatorial election in Ondo State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n VERDICT: <\/strong>CORRECT <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SOURCES: <\/strong>TheCable, Channels TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n DATE: <\/strong>17\/11\/2024 <\/p>\n\n\n\n FACTCHECK AUTHOR: <\/strong>Nurudeen Akewushola<\/p>\n\n\n\n EDITORS:\u00a0 Simbiat Bakare & Opeyemi Kehinde<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n CLAIM: A Facebook user, Gbenga Fasole Ilutitun, claimed<\/a> that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) result in the recently concluded Ondo governorship election is the worst the party ever experienced in the state.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n FINDINGS: <\/strong>Using available data, the claim is accurate. In the November 16, 2024, governorship election<\/a>, the APC won in all 18 LGAs after securing 366,781 votes, which is equivalent to about 70% (366,791) of the actual votes cast, leaving the PDP with only 23% (117,845). <\/p>\n\n\n\n In previous elections, the PDP had performed fairly better than this. In the 2020<\/strong><\/a> election, the APC<\/strong><\/a> candidate got 51.1% (292,830) of the actual votes, with the PDP candidate trailing behind with 34.2% (195,791) after the latter won in three LGAs. In 2016<\/strong><\/a>, PDP got 27.28% (150, 380) to APC’s 44.41% (244,842), securing<\/strong><\/a> victory in two LGAs, while in 2012<\/strong><\/a>, PDP got 24.97% (155, 961) to LP’s 41.75% (260,199). The PDP candidate emerged as the winner in 2003 and 2007, though the PDP candidate in 2007<\/strong><\/a> was later sacked via a court order. The party<\/strong><\/a> was formed in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n VERDICT: CORRECT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SOURCES: <\/strong>Multiple media reports <\/p>\n\n\n\n DATE: <\/strong>17\/11\/2024 <\/p>\n\n\n\n FACT CHECK AUTHOR: <\/strong>Elizabeth Ogunbamowo <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare & Opeyemi Kehinde<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As vote collation continues in the Ondo State governorship election, DUBAWA and its partners at the Nigerian Fact-Checkers\u2019 Coalition (NCF) continue to conduct live fact-checks on claims around the election. This is to ensure the dispensation of accurate information. See claims and verification below. Claim 1 CLAIM: An X user, @JBAdamu, claimed that 34,000 police officers were deployed for the Ondo election FINDINGS: During an interview with Channels TV, the deputy inspector-general of police (DIG) coordinating election security, Abiodun Alabi, disclosed that the Nigeria Police Force deployed 34,000 police officers for Saturday’s off-cycle gubernatorial election in Ondo State. VERDICT: CORRECT SOURCES: TheCable, Channels TV DATE: 17\/11\/2024 FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Nurudeen Akewushola EDITORS:\u00a0 Simbiat Bakare & Opeyemi Kehinde CLAIM 2 CLAIM: A Facebook user, Gbenga Fasole Ilutitun, claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) result in the recently concluded Ondo governorship election is the worst the party ever experienced in the state.\u00a0 FINDINGS: Using available data, the claim is accurate. In the November 16, 2024, governorship election, the APC won in all 18 LGAs after securing 366,781 votes, which is equivalent to about 70% (366,791) of the actual votes cast, leaving the PDP with only 23% (117,845). In previous elections, the PDP had performed fairly better than this. In the 2020 election, the APC candidate got 51.1% (292,830) of the actual votes, with the PDP candidate trailing behind with 34.2% (195,791) after the latter won in three LGAs. In 2016, PDP got 27.28% (150, 380) to APC’s 44.41% (244,842), securing victory in two LGAs, while in 2012, PDP got 24.97% (155, 961) to LP’s 41.75% (260,199). The PDP candidate emerged as the winner in 2003 and 2007, though the PDP candidate in 2007 was later sacked via a court order. The party was formed in 1998. VERDICT: CORRECT SOURCES: Multiple media reports DATE: 17\/11\/2024 FACT CHECK AUTHOR: Elizabeth Ogunbamowo EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare & Opeyemi Kehinde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20769,"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":[1571,5,3812,3815,3797],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[873],"class_list":["post-20812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-elections","category-headline","category-homepage","category-live-updates"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5pG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":873,"user_id":10,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dubawa","display_name":"Dubawa","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f70a877f6d81734de0ca299eabb33d20687f41f5a4cb83ae8d754fc9412ee293?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":"Strengthening Investigative Journalism for the fight against corruption in Nigeria."}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/NFC-Ondo-election.png?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20833,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions\/20833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20812"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20812"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CLAIM 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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