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Clip falsely claims Bola Tinubu's 'daughter' warned him not to rig ... - Yahoo News

A day before Nigeria’s electoral commission declared Bola Tinubu the winner of the presidential race, a Facebook page published a video with claims that it showed his daughter warning him not to rig the election. But this claim is false: the woman in the video is not Tinubu’s daughter – she is Nigerian activist Adetoun Onajobi. AFP Fact Check debunked another claim about Onajobi and the video before the election.

“Tinubu’s daughter warns her father to stop rigging the election and make peace,” reads a Facebook post published on February 28, 2023, and which has since been shared more than 26,000 times.

The clip was published by an account that regularly shares content in support of Labour Party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi.

A screenshot showing the false post, taken on March 3, 2023

The first part of the 8-minute video shows a woman warning APC’s Tinubu of his impending rejection at the polls by voters.

The woman referred to Tinubu as “my father” in the clip and spoke in a mixture of pidgin English and Yoruba, widely spoken in southwest Nigeria.

“The fire that will burn you, is not that of hell fire but technology fire, this presidency that you are running up and down, carry your leg and soak it inside water and relax your muscle,” the woman said.

The woman warned that even “money” would not save Tinubu in the presidential election.

But the claim that this video shows Tinubu’s daughter warning him not to rig the election is false.

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