The Federal Minister of Aviation, Mr. Hadi Sirika recently shared a video purportedly from a Kano All Progressives Congress Presidential campaign rally (which we have discovered to be false) on his Twitter account. 

The false footage showed a packed crowd of people which was falsely attributed as a show of overwhelming support for President Muhammadu Buhari in Kano, Northern Nigeria’s most populous city.  

However, the post appears to have been a coordinated misinformation campaign as several pro-government activists shared the same version of the video. 

The false video was originally a footage from the procession of the Tijanniya Islamic sect in 2018 and the venue of that event was Eagles Square, a public arcade ground in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Mr. Sirika apologised in another tweet after several people flagged his post as false. However, he is yet to delete the false post as at the time of filing this report.