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FACT-CHECK: Viral Video of President Tinubu, Daughter and Minister Umahi Being Splashed Dirty Water on Bad Road is AI-Generated
CLAIM:
A video circulating on social media claiming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his daughter Chief Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, Minister of Works David Umahi and security aides were embarrassed on a bad road when Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), who was in a truck, splashed dirty water from a pothole on them.
VERDICT: FALSE
The video is fake. It is AI-generated satire.
What the video shows:
The clip claims to show President Tinubu and his entourage touring a “new coastal road.” It shows a convoy of black luxury SUVs stuck on a flooded, potholed road. An audio overlay says: “Oga this road no be road again oh… Sir the vehicles are stuck, we cannot continue.”
The image of Vincent Otse, aka VeryDarkMan, was inserted into the clip to make it appear credible and drive virality.
Verification:
We subjected the video to analysis using Hive AI Detector.
The result showed:
• AI-generated video: 99.9%
• AI-generated speech: 0.3%
• AI-generated music: 6.2%
• Deepfake video: 0%
The 99.9% score for AI-generated video confirms the content was artificially created and is not a real-life recording.
NOTE:
The pictures looking like President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his daughter Chief Folasade Tinubu -Ojo and Minister David Umahi are not also real. What you have there is an AI-generated fake image made to look like President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Mrs Folasade Tinubu-Ojo and Minister David Umahi.
Further checks show the video is satirical content that uses visual irony to critique poor road conditions. It was circulated only on social media, with no trace of such an incident reported by any credible or mainstream media organization in Nigeria.
The earliest public version indexed is from a Facebook Reel posted on September 3, 2026, by the page “Pitchside and Parliament”.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1095174956801302/
The same format has since been re-uploaded by several other pages.
On close inspection, particularly in the second half where they walk through mud and a Toyota Land Cruiser splashes them, the physics, facial expressions and movements show typical AI generation artifacts.
CONCLUSION:
The video claiming to show President Tinubu, his daughter, and Minister Umahi being splashed with dirty water on a bad road is not real. It is AI-generated satirical content.
