“Lagos state deputy governor first son joins obedient family (sic),” reads a tweet published on October 1, 2022.
A screenshot of the false tweet, taken on October 2, 2022
A photo tweeted with the claim shows a man (circled in green) wearing a white T-shirt printed with pictures of Obi and his running mate, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed. He is also wearing a black baseball cap with the logo of Obi’s Labour Party.
The claim has more than 2,200 retweets and more than 9,900 likes.
Obi’s bid for the presidency is enjoying large support among young Nigerians, who see him as an alternative to Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and Atiku Abubakar, who was nominated by the leading opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Nigeria holds elections next year which will usher in a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari.
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