{"id":25767,"date":"2025-11-08T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=25767"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:36:10","slug":"anambradecides2025-false-no-cash-bundle-added-to-election-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/anambradecides2025-false-no-cash-bundle-added-to-election-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"#AnambraDecides2025: False! No cash bundle added to election materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM:<\/strong> A Facebook user, Bube Afric\u00e0, shared<\/a> (archived<\/a>) a video displaying bundles of cash, claiming in the caption that it was \u201celection-sensitive materials\u201d delivered for the Anambra election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS:<\/strong> A reverse image search<\/a> reveals that the same video<\/a> was posted<\/a> on Instagram in April 2025, months before the Anambra election in November. The captions claim the bundles of cash are from Nigeria\u2019s socialite, Obi Cubana\u2019s birthday celebration. Also, using keyword search, we located the same video posted<\/a> on Pulse Nigeria\u2019s TikTok account.  The video has been on the internet before the Anambra election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

SOURCES:<\/strong> Google reverse image search, Pulse Nigeria<\/a><\/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: A Facebook user, Bube Afric\u00e0, shared (archived) a video displaying bundles of cash, claiming in the caption that it was \u201celection-sensitive materials\u201d delivered for the Anambra election. FINDINGS: A reverse image search reveals that the same video was posted on Instagram in April 2025, months before the Anambra election in November. The captions claim the bundles of cash are from Nigeria\u2019s socialite, Obi Cubana\u2019s birthday celebration. Also, using keyword search, we located the same video posted on Pulse Nigeria\u2019s TikTok account.  The video has been on the internet before the Anambra election. VERDICT: INCORRECT SOURCES: Google reverse image search, Pulse Nigeria DATE: 8\/11\/2025 FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Muktar Balogun EDITORS: David Ajikobi, Lois Ugbede, Simbiat Bakare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16596,"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-25767","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-6HB","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\/11\/INEC-ballot-box.png?fit=1080%2C632&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767","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=25767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25775,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25767\/revisions\/25775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25767"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=25767"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}