No, a Nigerian man has not joined President-Elect William Ruto’s legal team

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A Nigerian man arrives in Nairobi to join the legal team of President-elect William Ruto’s defense.

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

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We did a reverse image search on the image and discovered that it was shared on an article on February 7, 2018 by Nairaland, a Nigerian English-language internet forum, of the man who had been practicing as a lawyer for fifteen years without being spotted and was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command on February 6, 2018.

Further, we also found the full list of the Kenya Kwanza legal team, which was shared in an article by Citizen Digital on August 26, 2022.

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