Gimba Kakanda, an analyst and columnist with DailyTrust tweeted a photograph of just-enthroned King Charles III claiming he had attended a coronation in Nigeria.
The journalist tweeted the photograph in response to a question raised by one Ahmad Farouq. Was “King Charles” on the coronation of any Nigerian monarch?” the tweep had asked.
Farouq’s question countered the one Kakanda asked earlier.
In the picture shared by Kakanda, King Charles could be seen in the midst of first-class Nigerian monarchs. They are Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi; Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III; the dethroned Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe; Oba of Benin Eheneden Erediauwa Omo N’Oba Ewuare II; the Shehu of Borno Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai and Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar.
Although Sanusi was obscured by the Sultan, checks revealed he was among them.
His tweet, at press time, has been retweeted 183 times with 14 quote tweets and over 700 ‘likes’.
VERIFICATION
WikkiTimes fact-checked the image using TinEye, a fact-checking tool used to verify images.
The picture, WikkiTimes learnt, dated back to November 6, 2018, when King Charles visited Nigeria as part of his two-day West Africa tour.
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Further findings revealed that Charles’s wife, Canilla, was also in attendance when he visited Abuja in 2018.
The UK monarch has visited Nigeria three times, checks showed. His first visit was in 1990, his second visit was in 2006 and the third in 2018.
VERDICT
The claim that King Charles attended a coronation in Nigeria is misleading and false.
