A newly-elected lawmaker within the Abia State Home of Meeting, Hon. Anthony Chinasa-Abiola, just isn’t of the Yoruba ethnic inventory, a PRNigeria fact-check says. (https://prnigeria.com/2023/03/19/yoruba-win-election-abia/)

However social media platforms and a few blogs earlier had been awash with claims that Chinasa-Abiola, is a Yoruba man.

The newly-elected legislator contested underneath the Labour Social gathering and received the election to signify Umuahia Central Constituency on the Abia State Home of Meeting.

However investigations by PRNigeria reveal that though most of Mr Chinansa’s private life has to not been revealed on the web, publicly obtainable info signifies that he’s a politician from Abia state underneath the Labour Political celebration in Nigeria.

He later left the All Progressives Congress (APC) and formally joined the Labour celebration the place he contested for the seat of the Abia State Home of Meeting underneath the celebration and received.

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Additional on-line checks revealed that Mr Chinansa himself has denied the declare.

He spoke with TVC Information completely saying it was a mischief of the election season.

“I’m not a yoruba man, I don’t have any combined breed in any respect, i’m a typical igbo man i’m an Ibekwu man…

“I’m a full-fledged Igbo man, a full flesh ibeku man. My mom and father are Igbo. I’m not a Yoruba man. My Yoruba identify Abiola is only a man identify,” he stated whereas talking to the TV station.

He additional defined that the Yoruba identify in his identify was a nickname however accused his opponents of utilizing it to engineer unhealthy blood towards his electoral probabilities.

Thus, PRNigeria due to this fact concludes that the declare that Hon. Anthony Chinasa-Abiola is a Yoruba man, is FALSE.