Posts Falsely Claim Court Ordered Reinstatement of Nigeria’s Rivers State Governor

Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers state in the Niger Delta has been a hot topic since President Bola Tinubu suspended its governor, Siminalayi Fubara, for six months. Posts shared on social media recently claimed that a court in the state ordered Fubara’s reinstatement and the dismissal of the interim administrator. But the claim is false; both the chief registrar of the court and the office of the interim administrator denied the existence of the ruling. The state administrator is still performing his official duties."Breaking Court Sacks Ibas as Rivers' Sole Administrator, Orders Tinubu to Reinstate Fubara," reads the headline of a Facebook…