No, Junet did not claim it’s time for Raila to accept he will never be president - iVerify Kenya

No, Junet did not claim it’s time for Raila to accept he will never be president

Misleading

The alleged message from Suna East MP Junet Mohammed to Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Party candidate Raila Odinga after Kenya’s electoral commission chair Wafula Chebukati announced Ruto’s victory in the tight presidential race on August 15, 2022, was created by Fake Tweet Creator Post, an app that can generate realistic-looking tweets in seconds.

Junet’s Twitter feed lacks any congratulatory messages.

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Verified Aug, 18 2022

Claim

According to a tweet purportedly from Junet, Raila should abandon his ambition and accept that he was never meant to be president.

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is Misleading.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We reviewed Junet’s official social media account and did not find the existence of such post. We also discovered that his most recent tweet was on August 15, 2022, when he tweeted about the presidential election results.

We also discovered that the tweet was created using Fake Tweet Creator Post, a Google Play app.

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