🇳🇬 Photos show armed men at Lagos political rally? ❌ These are old photos from 2011 taken at a protest against Boko Haram. Tonyevill3 reports:
The accompanying article, published in the outlet's global news section, described how members of the Yoruba militia, Oodua People’s Congress, armed with “
shotguns, rifles and machetes freely roamed the streets of Lagos without a sign of police” while protesting the killings carried out by Boko Haram jihadists at the time.The terror group began a violent campaign in 2009, and at one time, carved out a large swathe of land as itsDeseret News credited the American news agency Associated Press as the source of the news and the photo.but used a different picture showing the back of one of the armed protestors featured in the false tweet.
Both news organisations credited photographer Sunday Alamba for the respective images supplied by AP. A keyword search for “Oodua People’s Congress” in AP’s photo database showed a larger set of pictures taken by Alamba during the protest on December 8, 2011, including those published in the US and more recently on Twitter.At the time of the protest, Tinubu was a member of the now-defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, which later merged with other parties to form the APC in
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