A Facebook page Housing TV Africa shared a post on their Facebook with the caption “Share your thoughts!
Controversy in Edo State as flooding threatens to halt INEC’s Continuous Voter Registration exercise ahead of the governorship election.
Will this impact the election outcome? “
The post had 5 likes as of the time of verifying this story.
In the post, A link to where the full story can be read was shared, but the link when visited, led to a dead end.
Screenshot of the Facebook dead-end page
Going through the poster’s website https://www.housingtvafrica.com/ I found the story.
The featured image on the website post shows a flooded compound purported to be the Edo state INEC Office.
Featured image showing the flooded Edo State INEC office
Verification
Searching through the internet to confirm if other news outlets carried the news, we found out that Punch newspaper carried the news with video evidence. Vanguard and another news outlet also carried the news.
Going through the INEC X handle INEC has given a press release
Here is a copy of the press release
Image of the INEC Press Release
Conclusion
After extensive verification and research, it can be convincingly said that the verdict of this Claim is true.
