{"id":25788,"date":"2025-11-08T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=25788"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:54:34","slug":"anambradecides2025-inec-yet-to-declare-election-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/anambradecides2025-inec-yet-to-declare-election-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"#AnambraDecides2025: INEC yet to declare election winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLAIM<\/strong>: X user, @Esteembehemoth,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Esteembehemoth\/status\/1987078527863169442?t=TsE2U4QNOKZ-ut5EKOPt3g&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declares<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/Ys0yL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>archived<\/strong><\/a>) Governor Charles Soludo as the winner in the ongoing Anambra elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FINDINGS:<\/strong> As of 12:30 p.m. on November 8, voting is ongoing in all polling units in Anambra State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to declare a winner for the governorship election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" height=\"55\" data-attachment-id=\"23928\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/misleading-olive-b-academy-not-first-all-girls-boarding-school-in-sierra-leone\/false-4-2-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALSE-4-2.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"132,55\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FALSE-4-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALSE-4-2.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FALSE-4-2.png?resize=132%2C55\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23928\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">VERDICT: Incorrect&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOURCES: INEC&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DATE: 8\/11\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Pascal Ibe&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EDITORS:&nbsp; David Ajikobi &amp; Simbiat Bakare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAIM: X user, @Esteembehemoth,\u00a0 declares (archived) Governor Charles Soludo as the winner in the ongoing Anambra elections. FINDINGS: As of 12:30 p.m. on November 8, voting is ongoing in all polling units in Anambra State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to declare a winner for the governorship election.&nbsp; VERDICT: Incorrect&nbsp; SOURCES: INEC&nbsp; DATE: 8\/11\/2025 FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Pascal Ibe&nbsp; EDITORS:&nbsp; David Ajikobi &amp; Simbiat Bakare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24885,"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":[1571,5,3812,3815,3797,16],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-25788","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-6HW","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\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-08-at-12.21.21-AM.png?fit=460%2C255&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25788","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=25788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25789,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25788\/revisions\/25789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25788"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=25788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}