{"id":25792,"date":"2025-11-08T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=25792"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:21:54","slug":"anambradecides2025-misleading-anambra-lga-ifeanyi-chinweze-did-not-disrupt-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/anambradecides2025-misleading-anambra-lga-ifeanyi-chinweze-did-not-disrupt-election\/","title":{"rendered":"#AnambraDecides2025: Misleading! Anambra LGA Ifeanyi Chinweze did not disrupt election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: A Facebook user, Ogechukwu Akwaeze, claimed <\/a>that the local government chairperson of Anambra East, Ifeanyi Chinweze, visited Community Development Primary School, Umueri Ward 2, Unit 003, accompanied by armed men to disrupt the election and intimidate voters.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS: CJID observer Grace Nnoruka informed NFC that the LGA chairperson visited some polling units in the area. She also confirmed the presence of police vans in the polling unit but noted there was no form of intimidation. The observer stated that the LG chairperson and the police arrived at different times but departed almost simultaneously. Images<\/a> from Arise TV confirm the peaceful conduct of the election at the polling unit.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCES: NFC observer, Arise TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Elizabeth Ogunbamowo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare & Lois Ugbede<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CLAIM: A Facebook user, Ogechukwu Akwaeze, claimed that the local government chairperson of Anambra East, Ifeanyi Chinweze, visited Community Development Primary School, Umueri Ward 2, Unit 003, accompanied by armed men to disrupt the election and intimidate voters.\u00a0 FINDINGS: CJID observer Grace Nnoruka informed NFC that the LGA chairperson visited some polling units in the area. She also confirmed the presence of police vans in the polling unit but noted there was no form of intimidation. The observer stated that the LG chairperson and the police arrived at different times but departed almost simultaneously. Images from Arise TV confirm the peaceful conduct of the election at the polling unit. VERDICT: Misleading SOURCES: NFC observer, Arise TV DATE: 8\/11\/2025 FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Elizabeth Ogunbamowo EDITORS: Simbiat Bakare & Lois Ugbede<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25771,"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":[437,5,1571,3812,3815],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-25792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook-checks","category-elections","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-6I0","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-voters.jpg?fit=1008%2C567&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25792","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=25792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25793,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25792\/revisions\/25793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25792"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=25792"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}