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Claim: An X user shared a video claiming it shows an ongoing protest against President Bola Tinubu in Abuja.
Verdict: Misleading! The video was filmed earlier in June, not recently as captioned.
Full Text
As the election heats up, users are sharing different forms of disinformation targeting opposition parties and candidates.
Amid this trend, an X user, @SpoiltKid, shared a video (archived here) claiming to show an ongoing protest against President Tinubu in Nyanya, Abuja.
The post uploaded on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, was captioned, “Ongoing TINUBU MUST GO! protest in Nyanya, Abuja. The certificate forger and fake Muslim man who deceived Northerners.”
As of Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, the video has generated over 31,600 views, 915 reposts, 1,700 likes, 58 comments and 78 bookmarks.
Reviewing the comments, we found that most users considered the incident to be recent.
One user, @Cleofoje34723, wrote, “He’s enjoying himself in France. Very insensitive president. He’s not caring or has human feelings.”
Another comment by @Danjumamuntanka reads, “The Northern stupidity called Islamic clerics deceive their peoples with religious lies, called Muslim Muslim.”
However, one user @Lockyboy118 was in disbelief, stating, “Fake news.”
The video was also shared here, here, here, here and here.
As part of DUBAWA’s duty in combating election-related disinformation ahead of the upcoming election, we carried out this verification.
Verification
We carried out a reverse image search on screengrabs from the footage, which led us to a similar version of the video shared earlier in June on Facebook (here and here) and Instagram.
Most of these posts tagged the video as a “Tinubu Must Go” protest filmed in Nyanya, Abuja.
A keyword search to confirm the post’s authenticity led us to a report by The Cable in June 2026.
According to a report, the protesters occupied the Nyanya-Karu bridge in Abuja, the country’s capital, to demand the rescue of schoolchildren and teachers abducted from their schools in Oyo and Borno States.
It further claimed that Martins Vincent, a social media activist popularly known as VeryDarkman, also joined the demonstration.
Sahara Reporters and Punch newspaper reported similar incidents in June.
Conclusion
The video has been online since June 2026, when protesters called for the rescue of abducted school children and teachers, not a recent protest as claimed. Therefore, the claim is misleading.