A fact-checking organisation, Dubawa, has said that Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi did not win in 19 states in the February 25 presidential election as claimed in some quarters.
Dubawa made this known in a report published on Wednesday.
The organisation said it decided to investigate a claim that Obi won in 19 states of the federation, including the FCT; the PDP candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, won only eight states; the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu won in seven states; and the NNPP candidate, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, won in two states.
Dubawa said its findings are based on data on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s result-viewing platform, IReV.
“DUBAWA visited the INEC’s result viewing portal. As of the time of filing this report at 05:47 pm on March 7, 2023, only results from 164,233 polling units have been uploaded on the IREV portal representing 92.87% of the total 176,846 polling units. This means the results of 12,613 polling units nationwide had yet to be uploaded on the IReV portal.
“It is, therefore, misleading to dismiss the result announced by INEC and claim that Mr Obi won 19 states, including the FCT.
“Also, the result uploaded by a Facebook user, Mazi Chiemena Samuel, which showed Labour Party’s victory in about 18 states, including the FCT, is not from the IReV portal. Instead, it is a report from a poll conducted by Nextier on January 27, 2023,” the report said.