“Congrats Aisha Binani for being Nigeria's first elected female state governor. We all love you for opening new frontier for all Nigerian women (sic),” reads a tweet shared on March 19, 2023 and retweeted more than 380 times.
A screenshot of the false tweet, taken on March 21, 2023
The post was published by Bayo Onanuga, a campaign spokesman for the APC’s presidential candidate Bola Tinubu who won the general elections on February 25, 2023.
Several accounts on TikTok and Facebook made the same claim, including here and here.
Also known as Aisha Binani, Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed was the APC’s gubernatorial candidate in the key northeastern Adamawa state.
Her candidacy has been the subject of other false claims (archived here) debunked by AFP Fact Check.
Ahmed was elected to the House of Representatives in 2011 as a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
She later defected to the APC and joined Nigeria’s senate in 2019.
She won the APC primary nomination to run for the Adamawa seat in May 2022. Although a federal high...
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