{"id":25761,"date":"2025-11-08T12:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=25761"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:24:15","slug":"anambradecides2025-false-soludos-mayors-not-caught-with-n750m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/anambradecides2025-false-soludos-mayors-not-caught-with-n750m\/","title":{"rendered":"#AnambraDecides2025: False! Soludo’s Mayors not caught with N750m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: Michael Chibuzo<\/a>, in a Facebook group of over 85,000 members, claimed<\/a> (archived<\/a>) that two of Chukwuma Soludo’s Mayors were caught with N750 million cash each.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS<\/strong>: In October 2024, Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo swore in<\/a> 21 local government chairpersons referred to as mayors. The Nigerian Fact-Checkers Coalition found no reports confirming such an arrest, and the Anambra State Police Command said the claim is false. Police Spokesperson Tochukwu Ikenga informed the coalition that police patrol groups across the state had not reported such an incident.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCES:<\/strong> Nigeria Police<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE:<\/strong> 8\/11\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

EDITORS:<\/strong> David Ajikobi, Lois Ugbede & Simbiat Bakare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: Michael Chibuzo, in a Facebook group of over 85,000 members, claimed (archived) that two of Chukwuma Soludo’s Mayors were caught with N750 million cash each. FINDINGS: In October 2024, Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo swore in 21 local government chairpersons referred to as mayors. The Nigerian Fact-Checkers Coalition found no reports confirming such an arrest, and the Anambra State Police Command said the claim is false. Police Spokesperson Tochukwu Ikenga informed the coalition that police patrol groups across the state had not reported such an incident. VERDICT: INCORRECT SOURCES: Nigeria Police DATE: 8\/11\/2025 FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Muktar Balogun EDITORS: David Ajikobi, Lois Ugbede & Simbiat Bakare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25697,"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":[1571,5,437,3812,3815,3797],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-25761","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"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-6Hv","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\/2025\/11\/image-43.jpeg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761","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=25761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25763,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25761\/revisions\/25763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25761"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=25761"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}