{"id":20834,"date":"2024-11-17T16:57:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20834"},"modified":"2024-11-17T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T15:57:28","slug":"true-2024-ondo-pdp-election-results-worst-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/true-2024-ondo-pdp-election-results-worst-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"True! 2024 Ondo PDP election results worst so far"},"content":{"rendered":"\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

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VERDICT: <\/strong>CORRECT<\/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":"

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":1,"featured_media":13797,"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":[1571,5,3812,3815,3797,16],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-20834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-elections","category-headline","category-homepage","category-live-updates","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5q2","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\/PDP.jpeg?fit=685%2C375&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834","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=20834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20835,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions\/20835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20834"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}