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The propaganda to amass gullible Nigerian followers was serious. Sheep.

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

Mylove55:
she is a daughter to kingibe

This is a lie. I know iretis family very well cos I was in school with her niece (her sisters daughter). I am talking late 90s, one of Lagos top schools. They are a Yoruba family with 7 girls.

During visiting day my friends mum, and her mums sisters (including ireti), used to come visit them in school. They were all so pretty and slim and everyone in school knew the family with the plenty aunties cos they all looked alike. She is a Yoruba woman. She married kingibe. FACT.

pacino26:
Two possibilities for this tweet; get him more votes or swear him in as the governor on Election Day.

I only see a tweet expressing compassion for a wrong done to a trader and oppression faced by people carrying out legitimate businesses. If you are offended by this tweet or plan to scandalize his ambition the you are no more than the soldiers who took the life of the young man at Ladipo.

The empathy is why he posted these too? Lol!

Beremx:
All these useless propaganda because GRV has an Igbo heritage will not work. Lagos people will vote massively for him as they did for PO 😅😅

I actually want him to win. 😁 So political apathy in yorubaland will be destroyed.

These are currently circulating on twitter. The LP Lagos state candidate is half Yoruba/half Igbo and is an IPOB fan who supports Nnamdi kanus sit at home orders.

Update: he calls yorubas 'afonja' too.

Keats is APC. No point.

Biafra will soon resume

Incoming

Mymm

Mynd44:
Presidential Candidate Of the NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso Holds "Mega Rally" In Kano State.

Here are some pictures from the event

Okay

Okay

Awon ode

Obaaderemi2:
Please, this discussion is above your grade. I don't deal with unintelligent children. Let the likes of ayemafugeilaje comment. Thanks.

Lol

Lol. Shame

Tinubu is Nigerias next president. Ensure u vote and get pple u know to go vote for him too.

You do know 2 governors, the senate president and the speaker of the house is in that bus, right?

Of course there is military security, unlike Obi the loner dt dumped his party.

Hope they won’t deny saying this after Sunday.

Correct. Organized party. Asiwaju is a leader.

Interesting

Ese

Wike the wicked

Nice

Good

Ok

Nothing will happen

ALCOHOLKILLS:
Remove coward from your title, because we are never cowards then I will bet 1m with you

We send the money to seun

Seun ur attention needed