By Pascal Ibe
The video which shows the United States president-elect, Donald Trump, inviting an ex-Nigerian minister, Engr. Bello Mustafa, to join him in planning America’s budget on his return to the White House, has been circulating on Facebook, X, and in many WhatsApp groups since Saturday morning.
Engr Bello Mustafa is a former Nigerian minister of Commerce in the first cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo, holding office between June 1999 and 2002. He became head of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) in December 2003.
In the 17-second video, the UD newly elected president allegedly said he had invited the former Nigerian minister, to join his economic team. Trump stated in the video that Mustafa Bello would take charge of all American budgets and would help to make America great again.
The video has been shared on Facebook, X, and in many WhatsApp groups.
In one of the WhatsApp groups this video was forwarded to, a member captioned it, “Engr. Mustafa Bello was invited by Trump to join him in planning his budgets on his return to the White House.“
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Verification
First, watching the video closely, FACTWATCH observed that the sound did not match what Donald Trump was saying. Further observation indicated that Mr Trump speaks much faster than the sound.
This Fact Checker saw a watermark, Made with TryParrotAI.com, on the top left-hand side of the video.
TryPsrrotAI.com is a tool for generating AI videos. This further showed that the video was AI-generated.
There’s no credible report anywhere that confirms that this claim is true.
Verdict
Findings showed that this video is MISLEADING.
