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Claim: A Facebook user shared an image of a massive APC campaign in Ekiti State.
Verdict: False! The image is AI-generated.
Full Text
As the 2027 general election approaches, ardent party supporters have begun sharing unrelated Artificial Intelligence-generated images to push massive campaign support for their candidates. DUBAWA has investigated some of these here and here.
Following an All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign in Ekiti State on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, a Facebook user, Abdullahi Giggs, shared two images (archived here) purportedly showing massive support for APC in the State.
The images were captioned, “Ekiti for APC.”
As of Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, the post had generated over 595 likes, 139 comments, and 16 reposts.
In the comments section, many users questioned the image’s veracity.
Muhammad Yareema said, “You don’t differentiate between real life?”
Another comment by Umar Garba stated, “AI for Ekiti.”
Meanwhile, Alhassan Bala Idris wrote, “You should keep changing the same photo every day.”
The need to ensure that election-related posts are authentic as we approach the 2027 election prompted DUBAWA to carry out this investigation.
Verification
DUBAWA subjected the images to a Google Reverse Image Search, which led us to a similar claim on X with no credible sources for the images.
Thereafter, we manually analysed the images and observed that all the party flags are superimposed, with no one holding them.
Another noticeable inconsistency was that the people were not clearly visible, appeared to be facing different directions, and looked blurry.
We also submitted the images to Sightengine, an AI detection tool, which indicated a high likelihood of AI-generated content.
Furthermore, we verified the images using SynthID Detector, which also shows the images were generated with OpenAI.
Moreover, we checked images, videos (here and here), and reports (here and here) linked to the APC campaign in Ekiti State, and none looked like the claimant’s visuals.
DUBAWA further checked APC’s social media handles (X, Facebook, and Instagram) to see whether they uploaded any image or video related to the Ekiti campaign. The APC’s Instagram page was tagged in a post that mentioned the campaign in Ekiti, with pictures that look different from the claimant’s post.
Conclusion
Our findings show that the images presented as Ekiti APC campaign supporters were AI-generated. The post is therefore false.