{"id":25735,"date":"2025-11-08T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=25735"},"modified":"2025-11-08T10:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:40:25","slug":"therell-be-voting-in-5118-polling-units-out-of-the-5200-in-anambra-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/therell-be-voting-in-5118-polling-units-out-of-the-5200-in-anambra-state\/","title":{"rendered":"#AnambraDecides2025: False, Polling units in Anambra 5,720 not 5,200"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM<\/strong>: A Facebook user claims<\/a> that the November 8, 2025, Anambra State governorship election will be held in 5,118 out of 5,200 polling units in the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS<\/strong>: Multiple media reports<\/a> quoted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, as saying, \u201cthe election will be held in 5,718 of the 5,720 Polling Units in the state. Voting will not take place in the remaining two Polling Units due to the absence of registered voters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

SOURCES: INEC<\/a>, Thisday<\/a>, Channels TV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE: 7\/11\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Allwell Okpi <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

CLAIM: A Facebook user claims that the November 8, 2025, Anambra State governorship election will be held in 5,118 out of 5,200 polling units in the state.  FINDINGS: Multiple media reports quoted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, as saying, \u201cthe election will be held in 5,718 of the 5,720 Polling Units in the state. Voting will not take place in the remaining two Polling Units due to the absence of registered voters.\u201d VERDICT: INCORRECT SOURCES: INEC, Thisday, Channels TV DATE: 7\/11\/2025 FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Allwell Okpi  EDITORS: Opeyemi Kehinde & Simbiat Bakare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13629,"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":"","_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":[5,437,1571,3812,3815,16],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-25735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-facebook-checks","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-6H5","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\/Voting-rivers.jpg?fit=720%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25735","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=25735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25745,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25735\/revisions\/25745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25735"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=25735"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}