{"id":4405,"date":"2020-03-05T16:54:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2020-03-07T07:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:17:04","slug":"and-another-one-what-did-obasanjo-say-about-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/and-another-one-what-did-obasanjo-say-about-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"And Another One, What Did Obasanjo Say About Coronavirus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Viral picture message suggests Obasanjo said that there is no coronavirus in Nigeria and that the minister of health lied.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Obasanjo’s spokesperson, Kehinde Akinyemi refuted allegations attributed to Baba; a moniker often used to describe the former head of state. Additionally, Dubawa initiated a google reverse image search, which revealed that the “Fox News Writer” (the source) used the image out of context. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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News of this viral statement<\/a> attributed to the former Nigeria president has been trending on all media platforms. Particularly yesterday, March 4, Dubawa received this screenshot from several users on WhatsApp; with many questioning its authenticity. The circular elicited several reactions<\/a> across social media<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, Dubawa reached out to Olujonwon Obasanjo (his son) via a mutual contact, to ascertain the legitimacy of the claim. We, however, got no response; we also sent a text message to him and await a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, Dubawa put a call through to Kehinde Akinyemi, his spokesperson who was initially not forthcoming with the team. Notwithstanding, through the aid of a Premium Times correspondent, we were able to reach him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“any statement that is attributed to Baba but did not include when and where he made it should be disregarded. Baba didn’t say it and couldn’t have said it”<\/p> Kehinde Akinyemi<\/strong> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It would be TV news, not blog news<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Customary<\/a> with the Former head of state, his known method of information dissemination, especially on matters of national importance, is through letter writing<\/a>. Let’s assume it was an interview, what station broadcasted it? Would it not have made the 9’oclock news? These unanswered questions put a hole in this story’s plot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond words, images don’t lie<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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As it turns out, Fox News Writer published<\/a> another article attributed to the former head of state in February, using the same image; this casts a cloud of scepticism on the claim’s authenticity. More so, to say the article was stingy with details would be an understatement. The publication failed to cover the essential 5 Ws and H; only saying “more details soon”. And this was since March 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, when you examine both images, they bear a Punch logo. So, Dubawa reached out the newsroom. We are yet to receive a response from them, though, all signs point to it being a doctored image. As always, we will update this fact-check once we receive new information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He said nothing, absolutely nothing of the sort. Viewers are advised to question publications that fail to state the essential who, what, where, when or why… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4408,"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":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_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":[123],"tags":[562,347,769,770,60,768,566],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[872],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainstream","tag-coronavirus","tag-featured","tag-italian","tag-minister-of-health","tag-nigeria","tag-obasanjo","tag-virus"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-193","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":872,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"temilade-david","display_name":"Temilade Onilede","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d6f9f25c4a1105f1461a19d25d8fa7128cd9c2b7e635218f3771f1e74c82f8c?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":"Temilade Onilede is a researcher and the Programme Assistant for Dubawa, Nigeria. She holds an undergraduate degree in Performing Arts From the University of Ilorin, Ilorin Kwara State.\r\nShe is a trained journalist, with good research and writing skills, coupled with her knowledge in Journalism; a personable character and an engaging mind who is well skilled in the field of fact-checking and verification."}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Olusegun-Obasanjo.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}