FACT-CHECK: News Headline Claims Peter Obi Turned 50 in 2013. How Then is He Turning 62 Now?

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Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, will turn 62 on Wednesday.

The former Anambra State Governor has said he does not intend to celebrate his birthday, but this has not quietened the buzz around him.

Some social media users have dug up a newspaper publication from 2013 claiming Obi was 50 at the time, thus creating the impression that he earlier falsified his age or is doing so now.

The news report was shared on Tuesday by Uche Rochas, a Twitter user, and placed side by side with a screenshot of Obi’s tweet stating he had no intention of celebrating his birthday. Rochas’ tweet ends with “Which one should we believe?”

VERIFICATION: According to Obi’s Wikipedia page, he was born on July 19, 1961, and became governor in 2003 at the age of 42.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi#:~:text=On%2017%20March%202014%20Peter,Peoples%20Democratic%20Party%20in%202014.


This would mean that in 2013 he should have been 52, not 50 as the newspaper article claimed, and 62 in 2023 as Obi now says.

FIJ made further checks and found a 2011 article published by All Africa.

The article published on July 20 with the headline ‘Why I’ll Not Celebrate My 50th Birthday — Obi’ credited Obi with speaking with newsmen a day earlier, and saying his birthday did not come up during a meeting with his commissioners.

This story came two years before The Nation’s, and there are no records to show Obi falsified his age or recorded two different birth dates.

FIJ also found a news article by CKN News in 2013 correctly reporting Obi’s age as 52 at the time.

CONCLUSION: The article by The Nation newspaper in 2013 erroneously reported Obi’s birthday as his 50th.

VERDICT: The claim that Obi was 50 in 2013 is false.

https://fij.ng/article/fact-check-newspaper-headline-claims-peter-obi-turned-50-in-2013-how-then-is-he-turning-62-now/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi#:~:text=On%2017%20March%202014%20Peter,Peoples%20Democratic%20Party%20in%202014.

Lie master

Lamba master himself A man with woman voice can be half man half woman We all know some ladies don dey celebrate 25 years birthday for the past 7 years.

Happy birthday Mr Nanu, a.k.a, Indonesia & China

Don't mind Agbado people and their newspaper...



That was what they posted in their whatsapp group yesterday.


Sets of irredeemable cretins!

No one takes The Nation Lagos-Ibadan expressway propaganda Newspaper serious

Obi is a fraud

God really saved Nigeria from a disaster

Obi is guilty of everything he and his obidentss alleges Tinubu of, Drug, Age falsification,,, By the way, the youtuber or the voice in the video should go learn handwork as he fails to speak simple and correct English in the video. The tenses were all bad for this kind of job

Maize247:
Obi is guilty of everything he and his obidentss alleges Tinubu of, Drug, Age falsification,,,

read first

Personally I don't care what the age of Peter Obi or any other person's age is. If you like increase your age. If you like reduce your age.
When you die, you die.

When you say the truth, you don't need to remember what you said.
Obi lies consistently and people ignore that level of display at the national level.
How do you expect his cabinet to take him serious with that kind of attitude?

madridguy:
Lamba master himself A man with woman voice can be half man half woman We all know some ladies don dey celebrate 25 years birthday for the past 7 years.

Happy birthday Mr Nanu, a.k.a, Indonesia & China

See how you're disgracing yourself.

Ordinary a less than 200 words article, you couldn't read.

Shameo

jumper524:
When you say the truth, you don't need to remember what you said.
Obi lies consistently and people ignore that level of display at the national level.
How do you expect his cabinet to take him serious with that kind of attitude?

Are you guys for real?

Did you read the article at all.

Think9ja:
Obi is a fraud

God really saved Nigeria from a disaster

Make una read oo.

Jesus Christ.

Are you Tinubu Supporters this stupid?

Just 1 year difference? Which means it was probably a mistake. Who would want to lie about their age with just 1 year reduction..

TemplarLandry:

HoeB is a lying machine. It's public knowledge.

So to read is a problem to you guys?

I'm seriously shocked after going through the comments.
How the hell am I sharing a country with this sub-humans?

Nonny95:


Make una read oo.

Jesus Christ.

Are you Tinubu Supporters this stupid?

internationalman:
Just 1 year difference? Which means it was probably a mistake. Who would want to lie about their age with just 1 year reduction..

There's no error even.

Just read the article well and you will find out that the 50 years story was carried by APC propaganda newspaper.

Otuegbe:
read first

Stop supporting lies, Every papers celebrated him at 50 and he said in the papers while he would not celebrate his 50th birthday in 2013 and could not correct the error publicly then, now he is 62 years

Firstorderwizard:
I'm seriously shocked after going through the comments.
How the hell am I sharing a country with this sub-humans?

Even guys that I expected to behave better.

Imagine that Madrid guy.

Omoh I am disgusted

Maize247:
Stop supporting lies, Every papers celebrated him at 50 and he said in the papers while he would not celebrate his 50th birthday in 2013 and could not correct the error publicly then, now he is 62 years

F*ol read the article above and stop disgracing your parents here.

CONCLUSION: The article by The Nation newspaper in 2013 erroneously reported Obi’s birthday as his 50th.

Go and read ooo

Newsstories:
FACT-CHECK: News Headline Claims Peter Obi Turned 50 in 2013. How Then is He Turning 62 Now?

Watch video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GDU-5ZMuos

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, will turn 62 on Wednesday.

The former Anambra State Governor has said he does not intend to celebrate his birthday, but this has not quietened the buzz around him.

Some social media users have dug up a newspaper publication from 2013 claiming Obi was 50 at the time, thus creating the impression that he earlier falsified his age or is doing so now.

The news report was shared on Tuesday by Uche Rochas, a Twitter user, and placed side by side with a screenshot of Obi’s tweet stating he had no intention of celebrating his birthday. Rochas’ tweet ends with “Which one should we believe?”

VERIFICATION: According to Obi’s Wikipedia page, he was born on July 19, 1961, and became governor in 2003 at the age of 42.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi#:~:text=On%2017%20March%202014%20Peter,Peoples%20Democratic%20Party%20in%202014.


This would mean that in 2013 he should have been 52, not 50 as the newspaper article claimed, and 62 in 2023 as Obi now says.

FIJ made further checks and found a 2011 article published by All Africa.

The article published on July 20 with the headline ‘Why I’ll Not Celebrate My 50th Birthday — Obi’ credited Obi with speaking with newsmen a day earlier, and saying his birthday did not come up during a meeting with his commissioners.

This story came two years before The Nation’s, and there are no records to show Obi falsified his age or recorded two different birth dates.

FIJ also found a news article by CKN News in 2013 correctly reporting Obi’s age as 52 at the time.

CONCLUSION: The article by The Nation newspaper in 2013 erroneously reported Obi’s birthday as his 50th.

VERDICT: The claim that Obi was 50 in 2013 is false.

https://fij.ng/article/fact-check-newspaper-headline-claims-peter-obi-turned-50-in-2013-how-then-is-he-turning-62-now/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi#:~:text=On%2017%20March%202014%20Peter,Peoples%20Democratic%20Party%20in%202014.

You mean Tinubu propaganda newspaper now tell us when is Obi birthday? You are a comedian

he got the advice from a mad man

TemplarLandry:

HoeB is a lying machine. It's public knowledge.

Is that all? ........

This is Newspaper owned by Tinubu. They can easily edit the date..

Wetin I go talk now to save our Pitobi ? Ok

He's not lying, he was using the old Korean traditional age counting system to count his age .

Nonny95:


F*ol read the article above and stop disgracing your parents here.



Go and read ooo

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.informationng.com/2013/07/why-i-chose-not-to-celebrate-my-50th-birthday-gov-obi.html/amp&ved=2ahUKEwj_vO_cppqAAxW6T0EAHSvQBH44FBAWegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw0FGykXbi_OBLBULyfwTpK4

This is a fact check denouncing "The Nation Newpaper" for lying against Peter Obi's age. He was 52 at the time and not 50 as claimed by the Nation

This story came two years before The Nation’s, and there are no records to show Obi falsified his age or recorded two different birth dates.

FIJ also found a news article by CKN News in 2013 correctly reporting Obi’s age as 52 at the time.

CONCLUSION: The article by The Nation newspaper in 2013 erroneously reported Obi’s birthday as his 50th.

VERDICT: The claim that Obi was 50 in 2013 is false.

Tjis is the reason I recent most miscrants running around Nairaland like headless chickens claiming analyst is because they hardly read the content of a publication before responding with utter ridiculous opinions.

Who made you guys behave like mo.rons?

The fraudulent and criminal activities of "unconstitutional" has eaten deep into his followers. And so they find it abnormal to see a man who has a honest and straight forward life.

They are all serial liars and criminals

waynetee:
They are all serial liars and criminals

Read before commenting. The article said Peter Obi is saying the truth while the Nation Newspaper is a chronic liar