Fact Emerges: Did Yahaya Bello say Peter Obi won 2023 election but he helped rig it for Tinubu?

According to a post on the well-known social media platform Facebook, Yahaya Bello, the immediate past governor of Kogi state, assisted President Bola Tinubu in manipulating the results of the 2023 election. 

Remember that Tinubu was proclaimed the winner of the 2023 Nigerian presidential election? 

On March 1, 2023, the results were declared by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). 

With 8,794,726 votes, Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party defeated his two main opponents, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who each received 6,101,533 and 6,984,520 votes respectively. 

The Facebook accusation regarding Bello’s purported comments regarding Tinubu says:

“Tinubu is a thief, I helped him rigged the 2023 election, Peter Obi won him with great margin – EFCC has no right to arrest me because the President of Nigeria is not illegal – Yahaya Bello purportedly opens up.”

Africa Check, a fact-checking website, chose to look into the claim after it was made.

Following examination, the platform claimed to have found no reliable media coverage of Bello making such an allegation so it is fake news

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