CLAIM: An image containing alleged results of the Sierra Leone election 2023 has gone viral on social media, with a Twitter user congratulating the All Peoples Congress Presidential candidate, Dr Samura Kamara, for winning the elections. The viral results contained election figures from Kenema, Kambia, and Karene districts.
Findings
DUBAWA checked ECSL’s website to verify the photo and claim, showing that all the results were from 2018.
Wayback Machine also shows that the 2018 electoral commission results are an exact copy of what is being shared currently.
VERDICT: FALSE; the viral photo is not the 2023 election result. It is the 2018 runoff results.
