{"id":5398,"date":"2020-08-02T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T08:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2020-08-09T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T12:21:32","slug":"fact-check-did-oyetola-spend-3-days-in-abuja-without-seeing-buni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/fact-check-did-oyetola-spend-3-days-in-abuja-without-seeing-buni\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT-CHECK: Did Oyetola spend 3 days in Abuja without seeing Buni?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A POST with several claims about 2023 presidency and the internal leadership tussle in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party went viral on WhatsApp last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fact check of the claim that Oyetola spent three days in Abuja without seeing Buni shows that it is false.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FULL TEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A POST with several claims about 2023 presidency and the internal leadership tussle in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party went viral on WhatsApp last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post first surfaced on the 17th July. The post was also shared on Facebook<\/a> and blogs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the claims in the post is that the Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, was in Abuja for three days and was not able to see Governor Mai Mala Buni, who is the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Caretaker Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gboyega is also a member of the APC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE CLAIM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the WhatsApp post reads \u2013 (SIC) \u201cYou can confirm from the Governor of Osun State, Mr Oyetola, he was in Abuja for three days and couldn\u2019t see  Governor Mai Mala Buni because both Mai Mala Buni and Akeredolu group didn\u2019t want to allow him and other pro Asiwaju Bola Tinubu group in the Committee to discuss the MODE OF PRIMARY FOR ONDO STATE APC GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim:   Oyetola spent three days in Abuja without seeing Buni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE FINDINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 17 of July at 9:35pm, Governor Oyetola spokesman, Ismaila Omipidan shared photos of Oyetola and Buni on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omipidan captioned it \u201cPictures don\u2019t lie\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went further to  write that the pictures were taken before the commencement of the caretakers committee meeting at the party Secretariat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ICIR<\/strong> also reached out to Omipidan and he restated that Oyetola met with Buni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cThere is nothing true about the post (WhatsApp post). It is nothing but false. Those two leaders were together and meeting all through our stay in Abuja\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ICIR<\/strong> also contacted Mamman Muhammad, the spokesperson of Governor Buni, he confirmed that the parities in question met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muhammad said: \u201cThe last time they were here at the secretariat of the party, I saw the man (Oyetola) myself with my principal many times together. What kind of cheap blackmail  is that!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referring to the the claim, he said  \u201cnothing like that happened, the information is false\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

From the information presented above, the claim that Oyetola spent three days in Abuja without seeing Buni is therefore, FALSE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A POST with several claims about 2023 presidency and the internal leadership tussle in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party went viral on WhatsApp last week. A fact check of the claim that Oyetola spent three days in Abuja without seeing Buni shows that it is false. FULL TEXT A POST with several claims about 2023 presidency and the internal leadership tussle in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party went viral on WhatsApp last week. The post first surfaced on the 17th July. The post was also shared on Facebook and blogs. One of the claims in the post is that the Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, was in Abuja for three days and was not able to see Governor Mai Mala Buni, who is the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Caretaker Committee. Gboyega is also a member of the APC. THE CLAIM Part of the WhatsApp post reads \u2013 (SIC) \u201cYou can confirm from the Governor of Osun State, Mr Oyetola, he was in Abuja for three days and couldn\u2019t see  Governor Mai Mala Buni because both Mai Mala Buni and Akeredolu group didn\u2019t want to allow him and other pro Asiwaju Bola Tinubu group in the Committee to discuss the MODE OF PRIMARY FOR ONDO STATE APC GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION\u201d  The claim:   Oyetola spent three days in Abuja without seeing Buni THE FINDINGS On the 17 of July at 9:35pm, Governor Oyetola spokesman, Ismaila Omipidan shared photos of Oyetola and Buni on Facebook. Omipidan captioned it \u201cPictures don\u2019t lie\u201d. He went further to  write that the pictures were taken before the commencement of the caretakers committee meeting at the party Secretariat.  The ICIR also reached out to Omipidan and he restated that Oyetola met with Buni. He said: \u201cThere is nothing true about the post (WhatsApp post). It is nothing but false. Those two leaders were together and meeting all through our stay in Abuja\u201d. The ICIR also contacted Mamman Muhammad, the spokesperson of Governor Buni, he confirmed that the parities in question met. Muhammad said: \u201cThe last time they were here at the secretariat of the party, I saw the man (Oyetola) myself with my principal many times together. What kind of cheap blackmail  is that!\u201d Referring to the the claim, he said  \u201cnothing like that happened, the information is false\u201d. THE VERDICT: From the information presented above, the claim that Oyetola spent three days in Abuja without seeing Buni is therefore, FALSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5399,"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":[123,16],"tags":[1158,1157,1159,65],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[1163],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainstream","category-politics","tag-apc-crisis","tag-gboyega-oyetola","tag-governor-oyetola","tag-osun-state"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-1p4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1163,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"samad-uthman","display_name":"Samad Uthman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b558b8342d72c9e3c0d04667c82b4419c573ddecc3a326d51a297e218138cbbd?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Uthman","first_name":"Samad","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/oyetola-and-buni.jpg?fit=750%2C430&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","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=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}