According to the fact-checking agency, Dubawa, the Labor party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, did not win in nineteen states during the February 25 election.
Dubawa said its findings are based on data from the Independent National Election Commission’s results viewing platform.
The fact-checking agency revealed that the popular claim that Obi won nineteen states in the referendum was misleading.
The report said in part: “DUBAWA visited the INEC results visualization portal.
As of the time of filing this report on March 7, 2023 at 05:47 PM, the results of only 164,233 polling units representing 92.87% of the total 176,846 polling units have been uploaded on the IREV portal.
“This means that the results of 12,613 polling units nationwide had not yet been uploaded to the IReV portal.
“Therefore, it is misleading to dismiss the results declared by INEC and claim that Mr Obi won 19 states, including FCT.
“Also, the result uploaded by a Facebook user, Mazi Chiemena Samuel, which showed the victory of the Labor Party in about 18 states, including the FCT, is not from the IReV portal.
Rather, it is a report from a poll conducted by Nextier on January 27, 2023.”
Punch
