{"id":25846,"date":"2025-11-10T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=25846"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:34:46","slug":"anambradecides2025-apgas-soludo-won-with-422664-not-361893-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/anambradecides2025-apgas-soludo-won-with-422664-not-361893-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"#AnambraDecides2025: APGA\u2019s Soludo won with 422,664, not 361,893 votes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: An X<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) user claimed that Charles Soludo, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), won the Anambra governorship election with 361,893 votes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINDINGS: The official results, as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), show that Soludo polled<\/a> 422,664 votes, not 361,893 votes as claimed. Multiple media reports, from Premium Times and The Cable, confirm the announced figure.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

SOURCES: News Central<\/a>, Premium Times<\/a>, The Cable<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE: 9\/11\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Amarachi Onwuzulike<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDITORS: Lois Ugbede<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: An X (archived here) user claimed that Charles Soludo, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), won the Anambra governorship election with 361,893 votes.  FINDINGS: The official results, as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), show that Soludo polled 422,664 votes, not 361,893 votes as claimed. Multiple media reports, from Premium Times and The Cable, confirm the announced figure. VERDICT: Incorrect SOURCES: News Central, Premium Times, The Cable DATE: 9\/11\/2025 FACTCHECK AUTHOR: Amarachi Onwuzulike EDITORS: Lois Ugbede<\/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":[1571,5,3812,3815,16],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3744],"class_list":["post-25846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-elections","category-headline","category-homepage","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-6IS","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\/25846","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=25846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25847,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846\/revisions\/25847"}],"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=25846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25846"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=25846"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}