AN X user @lanreneville posted an image of a West African Senior School Certificate Exam (WASSCE) with a claim that the result belonged to Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections.
The claim was posted as a quoted tweet to a post made by another X user @chiditweets following the WAEC result of Edo state governor-elect, Monday Okpebholo, which went viral recently.
The image, likely a black and white paper, has details of each subject result released by the examination body.
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In the space for name, Peter Gregory Obi was filled under the space provided and thus, it looked different from the rest of the document.
The image has multiple rows with three columns, as the content of the first row shows numbering of each subject, while the second had subjects and the third shows grades on it, similar to what you find in an examination result.
The image was also accompanied with a caption that read: Talk no more…
The image has garnered some traction online since it was shared on September 23, 2024.
CLAIM
Image shows Peter Obi’s WAEC result.
THE FINDINGS
Findings by The FactCheckHub show that the claim is MISLEADING!
A Google Lens check on the image led our fact-checker to earlier versions of the image similar to the one posted by the claimant on X.
A close observation of the similar images shows that the name appearing on the document was Sowore Stephen Omoyele, the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections.
Further findings showed that the images were from news reports in 2022 when the former presidential candidate had shared pictures of his WAEC results on his Facebook handle as part of the documents he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2023 election.
Following the release of the documents, it had gone viral then. A the time, Sowore explained his low performance on the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) stating that he took a “second stab at WASSCE at a different high school before securing enough credits to gain admission into UNILAG”, YabaLeft Online reported.
The report read:
“Yesterday I uploaded my education credentials meant to be submitted to INEC Nigeria today as nominations close for Presidential candidates running in the 2023 Presidential Election. Many have asked why I performed so woefully in my first attempt at the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASCE), well, it was how it ended after that first attempt. I did state that I took a second stab at WASCE at a different high school before securing enough credits to gain admission into the university. I just couldn’t give up until I made it and got admitted into UNILAG in 1989 to study Geography and Planning. In fact, my late dad demoted me by asking that I go back to “Class 4″ after that woeful result I posted yesterday. After securing admission into UNILAG I had to combine the two results to get matriculated. I appreciate the engagement provoked by sharing my not-too-good WASCE/GCE result yesterday. Thanks!”
It was also supported by a screenshot of the Facebook post made by Sowore himself. However, our fact-checker could not find the Facebook post mentioned as it may have been deleted by the poster.
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Further checks revealed Obi’s actual WAEC results, which were also shared by the Labour Party’s presidential candidate during the 2023 general elections.
THE VERDICT
The claim that the image shows Peter Obi’s WAEC result is MISLEADING; the image is actually that of Omoyele Sowore’s WAEC result which was doctored with Obi’s name.
Seasoned fact-checker and researcher Fatimah Quadri has written numerous fact-checks, explainers, and media literacy pieces for The FactCheckHub in an effort to combat information disorder. She can be reached at sunmibola_q on X or [email protected].
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