Adeyemi Okediran
On Sunday, February 20, 2022, a Twitter user Oluwatomiwa tweeted a TikTok video embedded with ‘Asiwaju for 2023’ with the caption “Is this true??? 😮😮😮 AT 22 Chioma Church #Breakfaststories Slim #SuperClash”
The tweet has generated 18 comments, 33 quotes and retweets, and 115 likes while the video has 8,955 views as of the time of fact-checking this claim.
POTENTIAL IMPACT OF THE CLAIM
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is one of the presidential aspirants of Nigeria’s incumbent party, APC. The former Lagos governor has already declared his intention to run for President in 2023.
Also under the comments, there has been a lot of misunderstanding and misconception about who truly owns the car.
CLAIM
N-VA extracted screenshots from the video and went on to fact-check and verify its authenticity.
VERIFICATION
Who is Tinubu?
Bola Tinubu served as governor of the state of Lagos from 1999 to 2007. Before then, he served as a Senator from 1992 to 1993, when Nigeria’s Third Republic abruptly ended. Prior to entering politics, he worked in the private sector for companies including Arthur Andersen and Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells. He was also an executive of Mobil Oil Nigeria. After Tinubu left politics, he became active in negotiations to unite Nigeria’s opposition parties and in pushing for electoral reforms.
In January 2022, Tinubu officially confirmed that he will be joining the presidential race for 2023.
Is the video real?
In order to know if the video is real, the researcher took several screenshots of the video and used Google reverse image search engine to verify each of them.
It was discovered that the image was similar to the one posted on the Facebook page of a Congo Car Rental.
The image was captioned, “Uganda Entebbe airport will open on 1st October 2020. We can’t wait to restart tourism back to normal. All you need is a COVID-19 certificate that’s been obtained 72 hours prior to your travel or arrival to Uganda. No 14-day quarantine!”
A 9-second version of the same video was discovered on Youtube, with the caption written in Swahili, ‘Magari mapya ya serikali,’ which translates to ‘New government vehicles.’ It was posted as a Youtube short on July 4, 2020.
CONCLUSION
The video shared on Twitter which purportedly shows APC Presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s campaign cars is FALSE, the cars displayed in the video have been circulating online since July 2020.
