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Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by renderme: 10:27pm On Mar 02, 2023
Fact Check-TIME magazine cover featuring Peter Obi is fabricated

By Reuters Fact Check

A photo purporting to show Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi on the cover of the February 2023 edition of TIME magazine is fabricated, a spokesperson for the publication told Reuters.

“All eyes on Nigeria: Time for Africa’s sleeping giant to awaken,” reads the kicker on the supposed cover. Further text reads: “Peter Obi: His Labour party is favoured to win the Nigerian presidency. Are Nigerians finally ready to retire the old order and chart a new course?” (here).

Other examples of the fake cover can be viewed (here), (here), (here) and (here).

In an email to Reuters, a TIME spokesperson said: “This image is not an authentic TIME cover.”

TIME magazine keeps a public record of its previous front covers (time.com/vault/year/2023/). Reuters, however, found no cover featuring Obi in February 2023, per the publishing date on the image.

A Google keyword search for the cover did not yield any results either (/3KF8ZEQ).

TIME did publish a story on the 2023 Nigerian elections on its website, which can be viewed (here), but Reuters did not find any TIME cover dedicated to the elections.

This misinformation narrative surfaced online after Nigerians voted in presidential elections on Feb. 25. The Nigerian electoral commission has started announcing state-by-state results, Reuters reported (here).

VERDICT
Fabricated. No evidence that Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi featured on TIME magazine cover.


Source:
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-peter-obi-time-magazine-idUSL1N3581Y2

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Nobody: 10:31pm On Mar 02, 2023
Let the court cases begin. Who was rigged between PDP and LP sef because I’m confused already

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Totilopussylick(m): 10:34pm On Mar 02, 2023
INEC clearly stole Peter Obi mandate in the just concluded election in Nigeria

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by PandoraObi: 10:35pm On Mar 02, 2023
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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by renderme: 10:37pm On Mar 02, 2023
The propaganda to amass gullible Nigerian followers was serious. Sheep.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by IgOga(m): 10:39pm On Mar 02, 2023
Totilopussylick:
INEC clearly stole Peter Obi mandate in the just concluded election in Nigeria

grin cheesy grin your delusion sha grin

Person wey nor get national spread still.come 3rd.....


The courts will first have to determine who dey lie between Atiku and Obi grin

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by 0monnak0da: 10:40pm On Mar 02, 2023
Totilopussylick:
INEC clearly stole Peter Obi mandate in the just concluded election in Nigeria
Which states did he get 25% in that have been denied?

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Softmirror: 10:41pm On Mar 02, 2023
renderme:
Fact Check-TIME magazine cover featuring Peter Obi is fabricated

By Reuters Fact Check

A photo purporting to show Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi on the cover of the February 2023 edition of TIME magazine is fabricated, a spokesperson for the publication told Reuters.

“All eyes on Nigeria: Time for Africa’s sleeping giant to awaken,” reads the kicker on the supposed cover. Further text reads: “Peter Obi: His Labour party is favoured to win the Nigerian presidency. Are Nigerians finally ready to retire the old order and chart a new course?” (here).

Other examples of the fake cover can be viewed (here), (here), (here) and (here).

In an email to Reuters, a TIME spokesperson said: “This image is not an authentic TIME cover.”

TIME magazine keeps a public record of its previous front covers (time.com/vault/year/2023/). Reuters, however, found no cover featuring Obi in February 2023, per the publishing date on the image.

A Google keyword search for the cover did not yield any results either (/3KF8ZEQ).

TIME did publish a story on the 2023 Nigerian elections on its website, which can be viewed (here), but Reuters did not find any TIME cover dedicated to the elections.

This misinformation narrative surfaced online after Nigerians voted in presidential elections on Feb. 25. The Nigerian electoral commission has started announcing state-by-state results, Reuters reported (here).

VERDICT
Fabricated. No evidence that Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi featured on TIME magazine cover.

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here.

Source:
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-peter-obi-time-magazine-idUSL1N3581Y2

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grin I HONESTLY GIVE IT TO PETER OBI. HE IS THE MAN OF THIS 2023 ELECTION. HE WAS SO ABLE TO SUSTAIN THE OBI MOVEMENT WITH ALL KINDS OF MANIPULATIONS ALL IN AN EFFORT TO SEE THAT HIS MASTER ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU WHO GAVE HIM THE JOB IN ENSURING SO WINS BY A STRATEGY WHICH MAKES VOTES FOR PETER OBI INVERSELY COUNT FOR TINUBU.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Emilokoiyawon: 10:49pm On Mar 02, 2023
Why is it that EVERYTHING about Ibos is fake. Fake Times cover even join?

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by renderme: 11:05pm On Mar 02, 2023
Emilokoiyawon:
Why is it that EVERYTHING about Ibos is fake. Fake Times cover even join?

cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy
So much lies. It’s the way the followers see him as their hope for me. Same Peter Obi of Anambra SARS dt did nothing in that state. PDP chieftain. He didn’t even support the endsars. SMH.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Omihanifa: 11:06pm On Mar 02, 2023
Did obi open his mouth and say he made it to the front page of time? The answer is NO. Everyone knows that it was fabricated. Moreover how many Nigerians dey read time magazine? Anyday anytime majority of the people in Nigeria will glady choose punch newspapers ahead of time magazine.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by renderme: 11:09pm On Mar 02, 2023
Omihanifa:
Did obi open his mouth and say he made it to the front page of time? The answer is NO. Everyone knows that it was fabricated. Moreover how many Nigerians dey read time magazine? Anyday anytime majority of the people in Nigeria will glady choose punch newspapers ahead of time magazine.
Obedients are liars…is the point!

You should think twice about everything they say…is the point!

And this was shared by your biggest obedients : Charly boy and Aisha yesufu. People were in tears and adoration under those posts. I’ll go find comments. Wait.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by ogaontop(m): 11:12pm On Mar 02, 2023
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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by kk2027: 11:13pm On Mar 02, 2023
Totilopussylick:
INEC clearly stole Peter Obi mandate in the just concluded election in Nigeria

It's sad really

Tinubu that lost woefully in his home state Osun and even in the Lagos he claimed he built. He couldn't even get ordinary 25% in Abuja

He took those places for granted while targeting on miraculously on winning his opponents stronghold grin cheesy

Tinubu wouldn't have gotten up to 1 million votes in a free and fair election. Little wonder no one is celebrating the fraudulent win

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by mycar: 11:19pm On Mar 02, 2023
0monnak0da:

Which states did he get 25% in that have been denied?
the original results for kaduna, ogun, akwa ibom, oyo and adamawa and many other that we are still checking

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by 0monnak0da: 11:26pm On Mar 02, 2023
mycar:

the original results for kaduna, ogun, akwa ibom, oyo and adamawa and many other that we are still checking
do you have evidence?
If you are STILL CHECKING
How can you say his MANDATE WAS STOLEN?
All these are still not enough

Fewer than 25 states required
He has 16 states with 25%
Where are the remaining 9?
NE and NW are 13 states
He couldn't penetrate because he played a strong religious card
Maximum he can get is 23
When you say MANY MORE
you are deceiving your self

NW and NE rejected his message

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Horus(m): 11:31pm On Mar 02, 2023
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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Kapeter(m): 11:57pm On Mar 02, 2023
What do you expect from him tu lie and his bees of swine followers grin Well anything to masturbate on and deceive their circle of m0r0nic followers with. grin Person nor get 25% reach 17 states him say na him win. Na your papa give you 25% for North West, North East and Western states. Ode of the highest order.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Kapeter(m): 12:02am On Mar 03, 2023
mycar:

the original results for kaduna, ogun, akwa ibom, oyo and adamawa and many other that we are still checking
Only a flat headed mischief maker would believe that it's natural for Atiku and Tinubu not to meet 25% in any SE states but Him too lie should have 25% in the domains of the others. Nor be juju be that. grin How on earth is him tu lie supposed to Garner 25% in Oyo and Ogun, una think say e be Lagos where people dey form woke? Na ibile HQ be this place na. And funny how they think Kaduna should be won grin because of southern Kaduna votes that supported Atiku and made it well known that they are supporting him even before the election.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Pepperoniq(m): 5:05am On Mar 03, 2023
What's the need now? The old one's refuses to retire this why Peter is crying 😭

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Mrregistration: 5:05am On Mar 03, 2023
Fabri....... what?

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by kenedy175(m): 5:06am On Mar 03, 2023
This is always the work of the enemies of 9ja (agbados). They be always trying to fabricated lies against Obi.

Whatever they do always doesn't ever work. Always very mischievous set of people.

The more you try to tarnish Obi's image, the more he soars higher.

I still wonder why some set of people will hate 9ja so much to impose Tinubu upon us.

See how Kenyans insulted the hell out of us because of Tinubu.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Wickedfacts: 5:06am On Mar 03, 2023
Everything about Obidients is all about lying, cursing and stealing.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by afbstrategies: 5:06am On Mar 03, 2023
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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by sleek214(m): 5:06am On Mar 03, 2023
Obi the Fraud.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Wickedfacts: 5:07am On Mar 03, 2023
mycar:

the original results for kaduna, ogun, akwa ibom, oyo and adamawa and many other that we are still checking

Obi got 25% in Ogun? grin

It seems the loss of Obi at the polls has caused you mental inbalance.

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Uyi168: 5:08am On Mar 03, 2023
the way Charly boy propagate fake news ehnn..

grin

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by chucks185: 5:08am On Mar 03, 2023
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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Wickedfacts: 5:08am On Mar 03, 2023
kk2027:


It's sad really

Tinubu that lost woefully in his home state Osun and even in the Lagos he claimed he built. He couldn't even get ordinary 25% in Abuja

He took those places for granted while targeting on miraculously on winning his opponents stronghold grin cheesy

Tinubu wouldn't have gotten up to 1 million votes in a free and fair election. Little wonder no one is celebrating the fraudulent win

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Re: Fact Check: Time Magazine Cover Featuring Peter Obi Is Fabricated - Reuters by Wickedfacts: 5:08am On Mar 03, 2023
Uyi168:
the way Charly boy propagate fake news ehnn..

grin

Charly Boy is an old fool. He's a chronic debtor who got evicted for not paying rent.
To think that his father was a Supreme Court Justice.

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