Viral video of Oshiomole’s rigging comment unrelated to Edo election

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CLAIM: An X user, @TENIBEGILOJU202, shared a claim attributed to Adams Oshiomhole, the senator representing Edo North. Multiple Facbook page have also shared this claim as seen here, here, here and here.

The claim reads, “BREAKING!!! FOR DEMOCRACY TO THRIVE, PDP AND LP MUST ACCEPT THE PAIN OF RIGGING… OSHIOMOLE. At this point, we must do everything possible to ensure that the APC leaves the building or else we are doomed forever”.

The X user also included a video from Channels TV of Oshiomhole speaking at a press conference.

FINDINGS: The video from Channels TV is captioned: “Osun governorship election”. The election took place in September 2018. So it has nothing to do with the Edo State governorship election. We also found out that the video was originally posted online on 28 September 2018. Then it was captioned: “Osun governorship election: Oshiomhole denies allegation of rigging by APC”.

Oshimhole was reacting to allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the governorship election in Osun was rigged. He said that on the part of the PDP if they win an election, it will mean that the election was free and fair. But if they lose… It means the election was rigged.

At no point in the video did Oshimhole say the following: “At this juncture, we must do everything possible to ensure that APC exit the building or else we are doomed forever.”