Video shows ex-Nigerian minister rebuking APC in 2023 before joining ruling party

As election campaigns intensify in Nigeria ahead of national polls scheduled for early next year, a video shared thousands of times online claims to show former power minister Bayo Adelabu criticising his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). However, the claim is misleading: the video was filmed during the 2023 campaign season when Adelabu was the opposition Accord Party's candidate for governor in Oyo, a southwestern Nigerian state. He subsequently switched back to the APC in December of the same year after becoming a minister.