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Did a Nigerian election official apologise for announcing a 'fake' presidential election result? No, an official told the electoral commission he announced a federal parliamentary seat 'under duress' - not the presidential results, Tonyevill3 reports.

Shared more than 16,000 times, the 14-minute-long video in the post features the photos of leading presidential candidates, election officials and the chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu.

The narrator in the video claims 22 seconds into the clip that an “INEC official” released a statement “apologising to the Nigerian people for announcing fake election results during the presidential election.” Just over a minute later in the video, a letter allegedly written by the official in question is displayed.e president-elect from the ruling All Progressives Congress , Bola Tinubu, awinner of the presidential ballotObi and fellow opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party, argued that widespread irregularities and rigging marred the election.

But the claim that an official apologised for announcing a fake presidential election result is misleading.of the faculty of clinical sciences at Bayero University in Kano, northwest Nigeria. Yakasai served as the returning officer for the House of Representatives election held on February 25, 2023, the same day as the presidential election.A screenshot of the letter Professor Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai wrote to INEC, taken on March 6, 2023

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