A visual showing some packaged rice has surfaced online with a claim that it shows bags of rice branded with the People Democratic Party’s (PDP) logo and image of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate for this year’s general election in Nigeria.
The purported Obi image printed on the bags of rice shows a man in a black native dress wearing glasses.
This claim is False, Here is what we know –
The purported video shows a scene where some bags of rice branded with the PDP logo and the names of some contestants under the party were being loaded into a truck.
When our researcher did a keyframe analysis of the footage using InVid –, findings show the branded bags of rice had on them the names of some PDP candidates who are contesting for various elective positions in Delta state as well as that of Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa, the party’s presidential candidate and his vice, respectively.
Further checks online revealed that the image seen on the branded bags of rice is that of Hilary Obioma Igbebulem, the principal secretary to the Delta State governor who reportedly sponsored or bought the items and not Peter Obi as claimed in the viral social media posts.
Conclusion:
The claim that the visuals show an image of Peter Obi on the bags of rice branded with the PDP logo is FALSE; findings revealed that the image shows Hilary Obioma Igbebulem, the secretary to the Delta state governor.
