“President Buhari ordered EFCC to raid Tinubu’s house, and 400 billion of the new money was recovered from his underground house,” reads a post shared on February 18, 2023, claiming further that the confiscated money was likely the “entire money printed for the whole Nigeria”.
A screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken on February 19, 2023
The post features six photos, including of Tinubu and of men dressed in the jackets of the EFCC. Other photos show what looks like new Nigerian banknotes on the ground and on a metal shelf in a room.
Shared more than 1,000 times, the post was published on a page called “Igbo Times Magazine” that has a history of publishing content critical of the APC and Tinubu.
The page has about 41,000 followers and has been the subject of past debunks by AFP Fact Check (here, here, here,and here).
The page’s transparency record shows it was created on July 28,...
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