These photos on Facebook and Twitter, supposedly of Nigerian opposition politician Peter Obi with French President Emmanuel Macron, are ALTERED.

The authors claim the images were taken at the June 2023 Paris summit.

The images were published after the Paris 22–23 June 2023 Summit for A New Global Financing Pact. The summit’s agenda was to develop financial solutions to tackle global challenges such as poverty and climate change.

We performed a Google reverse image search to authenticate the validity of the photos and the results were that the photos had been edited.

The original images are of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and his French counterpart Macron at a state banquet hosted by the latter in Paris on 23 June 2023. The photos were published on President Tinubu’s Twitter account and Facebook page on 23 June 2023.

A Google search for Peter Obi attending the summit yielded negative results. Nigeria’s Fact Check Hub also found the images to have been doctored.

​​PesaCheck examined photos on Facebook and Twitter, supposedly of Nigerian politician Peter Obi with French President Emmanuel Macron, and found them to be ALTERED.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Rodgers Omondi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Cédrick Irakoze and acting chief copy editor Francis Mwaniki.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editorDoreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape the government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water/sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visitpesacheck.org.

PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.