The claim: A screenshot shows a statement from American actor Tom Hanks on Peter Obi’s presidential ambition.
Ahead of the 2023 Nigeria presidential election, some online users claim American actor and movie producer Tom Hanks issued a statement about Peter Obi being the better option.
Tom’s quotation can be seen in a website post that was shared on July 16. According to the statement, Hanks claimed that if Peter Obi had been an American, the country would have immediately made him president.
“If Peter Obi was an American or even African American, Americans would have given him a one-way presidential ticket without him contesting, America and the world at large have not gotten the chance Nigerians have right now to correct their mistakes,” the post read.
“Americans saw Peter’s speech on one of their local television programs, after his speech, there was a standing Ovation for him all over America,” the website added.
On July 16, a second person took it and put it into a video, which they then uploaded to YouTube with the same alleged remark.
The claimed quote was included in another tweet shared on July 18 with the title, “Nigerian youths campaigning for Tinubu and Atiku are already in stage 4 of the killer disease bad politics has done to Nigerians.” Most of them think it is politics and about their candidate.” Similar posts have been shared widely on Twitter and Facebook.
On July 18, the same post was also taken and posted on Nairaland, the largest forum in Nigeria.
But the screenshot of the purported statement is 100% fake. MANDYNEWS.COM found no evidence the statement exists on any of Tom Hanks’s social media accounts or his personal website.
The website administrator who shared the claim has been contacted by MANDY NEWS for comment, but no response has been received as of yet.
Investigation reveals is fabricated
According to the thorough investigation done by MandyNews.com, the said statement is a forgery.
Our rating: Fake
Based on our findings, we assess a screenshot that falsely depicts a quote from Tom Hanks concerning Peter Obi as FAKE. According to a Mandy News investigation, the claim made in the online post was false. Both Tom’s personal website and his social media accounts were not updated with it.