{"id":25783,"date":"2025-11-08T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=25783"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:49:26","slug":"anambradecides2025-did-voter-sustain-head-injury-during-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/anambradecides2025-did-voter-sustain-head-injury-during-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"#AnambraDecides2025: Did voter sustain head injury during poll?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: An X user @Ojay147_<\/a>\u00a0 posted <\/a>a picture of a man who sustained an injury on his head with the hashtag #anambradecides2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS:<\/strong> An image search shows the image has been online since 2018. A TV report from Igbere TV News<\/a> on June 24, 2018, shows that the picture was taken during a violent clash among members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the Dunukofia Local Government Area, Anambra State. The party\u2019s deputy chairperson, Emma Otika, reportedly sustained a head injury during the attack when party executives from Dunukofia staged a protest at APGA\u2019s state secretariat and the state House of Assembly in Awka.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCES:<\/strong> Igbere TV News<\/a>, Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

FACTCHECK AUTHOR:<\/strong> Fatimah Quadri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

CLAIM: An X user @Ojay147_\u00a0 posted a picture of a man who sustained an injury on his head with the hashtag #anambradecides2025. FINDINGS: An image search shows the image has been online since 2018. A TV report from Igbere TV News on June 24, 2018, shows that the picture was taken during a violent clash among members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the Dunukofia Local Government Area, Anambra State. The party\u2019s deputy chairperson, Emma Otika, reportedly sustained a head injury during the attack when party executives from Dunukofia staged a protest at APGA\u2019s state secretariat and the state House of Assembly in Awka. VERDICT: Misleading SOURCES: Igbere TV News, Facebook DATE: 8\/11\/2025  FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Fatimah Quadri EDITOR: David Ajikobi & Simbiat Bakare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25769,"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":[1571,3812,3815],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-25783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-6HR","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\/anambra-election-again.jpg?fit=2304%2C1728&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25783","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=25783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25786,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25783\/revisions\/25786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25783"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=25783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}