Nigeria: Interview With Former Vice Chair of Nigeria's Ruling APC Saying Party Could Only Win By Rigging Is Old, Shared Out of Context

What the report says

Africa Check, via AllAfrica, reported on 3 August 2026 that a video circulating on Nigerian social media was being wrongly presented as a fresh interview in which former APC vice chair Salihu Lukman said the ruling party could only win the 2027 election by rigging. The fact-check said the clip was being shared out of context and was not new.

According to the report, the video began spreading in July 2026, shortly after Lukman reportedly resigned from the African Democratic Congress. Posts suggested his remarks reflected a current view of the APC’s prospects ahead of the next general election, scheduled for 16 January 2027. The claim was amplified with captions implying he had recently warned that President Bola Tinubu or the APC would need to rig the vote to win.

Africa Check said a reverse image search traced the footage to a Channels Television YouTube video published on 13 June 2024. In that earlier appearance on Sunrise Daily, Lukman was speaking during discussions linked to Nigeria’s 25 years of uninterrupted democracy, not the 2027 election campaign. The outlet said the recirculated clip could mislead viewers about when and why the remarks were made.

The report is part of a broader context in which old political clips and speeches are sometimes reshared online as if they were current, especially around election periods.