07.03.2023 FEATURED
FACT-CHECK: Is the Result for Rivers’ Obio/Akpor LGA on INEC Portal Different From One Announced?
Published 7th Mar, 2023

By Sodeeq Atanda



Following the disputations that trailed the upload of the February 25 presidential election results to the INEC portal, different political actors have been posting election results on social media.

Prominent among the politicians that have been using their verified social media platforms to circulate election results is Senator Dino Melaye.

Melaye represented Kogi West Senatorial District in the Senate from 2015 to 2019. At the moment, he is a spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s presidential campaign council.

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There have been allegations of result manipulations in Rivers State, particularly in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, where the state governor, Nyesom Wike, hails from.

CLAIM: The presidential election result uploaded to the result portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State differs from what the commission announced during the final collation in the state.


The post on Melaye’s Facebook page
According to Melaye, the Labour Party (LP) originally got 70,186 votes, and the All progressives Congress (APC) got 12,547, but “INEC announced 80,239 for APC and 3,829 [votes] for LP”.

“Imagine this INEC magic,” he wondered.

VERIFICATION: Checks by FIJ on the result portal on Tuesday revealed that the polling unit results for the LGA in question had not been fully uploaded to the INEC result portal.


Progress of result upload to IReV
The council has 17 wards with varying number of polling units. We found that only the results for two wards had been fully uploaded to the website, while the remaining 15 wards were at different levels of upload but yet to be completed.

The two wards are Rumuodomaya (3A), Ward 4; and Rumueme (7C), Ward 11.

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CONCLUSION: Melaye could not have derived his figure from the INEC portal as claimed.

VERDICT: The claim is false and misleading.

https://www.fij.ng/article/fact-check-is-the-result-for-rivers-obio-akpor-lga-on-inec-portal-different-from-one-announced

Dey play

Bianca2:
Dey play

Just dey play 😂

This is called INEC MAGIC

Another fake News busted!!!
Obidients and fake News... I am so sorry for Melaye who got his info from obidafts, those guys are gullible and stupid. Too daft abeg!

fake fact-check...INEC is still uploading what or they are removing what they have uploaded.

Thunder strike you and your fact check.

Why not tell inec to upload results first let us confirm?

We are in the season of fake news from sore losers.

Either INEC have changed what they uploaded or Op is a rabble rouser...

What Melaye posted happens life. I checked it myself and confirmed and INEC are yet to debunk it as Fake

Fact check inec chairman na

Obidunze urchins get the full result

They are bent on peddling fake stats to achieve their objective.

CONCLUSION: Melaye could not have derived his figure from the INEC portal as claimed.

VERDICT: The claim is false and misleading

Another petition dismissed early

We ahead of them Asiwaju

They removing what was uploaded, mathematicians are on duty