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In the video, the former governors could be seen exchanging punches and hit-kicks like the popular Asian Kung Fu fight.
The video was posted alongside a claim originally captioned in Hausa language thus: “An Kaure da fada”. When translated into English, it means: “they ended it with a fight”.
The post has garnered more than 2.1 million views with over 23,000 likes, plus more than 1,000 comments and over 2,000 shares on the social media platform as of February 12, 2025.
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Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso were once close political allies in Kano State, Nigeria. Ganduje served as Kwankwaso’s deputy governor from 1999 to 2003 and again from 2011 to 2015 under the ”Kwankwasiyya” political movement. However, their relationship became sour after Ganduje succeeded Kwankwaso as governor in 2015 and thereafter moved to free himself from his erstwhile political godfather.
The viral video might further exacerbate the unrelenting sour relationship among the supporters of both politicians.
CLAIM
Video shows Ganduje fighting with Kwankwaso.
THE FINDINGS
Findings by The FactCheckHub revealed that video is MISLEADING, as it is AI-generated.
The fallout stemmed from Ganduje’s decision to break away from Kwankwaso’s political influence and assert his independence in Kano politics. He distanced himself from the “Kwankwasiyya” movement led by his predecessor and began undoing some of Kwankwaso’s policies. The feud intensified when Ganduje refused to support Kwankwaso’s 2019 presidential bid and later opposed his influence in Kano politics.
The feud has continued over the years, with political and legal battles between both camps. In 2019, the Ganduje-led government split the Kano Emirate into five parts, weakening the power of then-Emir Muhammad Sanusi II, a known Kwankwaso ally. More recently, after Ganduje became APC national chairman in 2023, the rift persisted as Kwankwaso-led New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) won Kano governorship in 2023, leading to renewed feud. In 2024, the NNPP-led Kano government dissolved the new emirates created by Ganduje.
Their rivalry remains one of the most significant political feuds in northern Nigeria today.
To verify the video, our fact-checker carefully examined the dramatic fight movements, which resembled a classic Asian Kung Fu fight. Using a keyframe from the video, he performed a reverse image search on Google Lens. The results led to a Facebook post from 2012, showing that the image was originally taken during an award plaque presentation by the National Air Traffic Communicators Institute of Nigeria to Kwankwaso, which was handed over by Ganduje after previously receiving the award on his behalf.
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Further analysis of the video led our fact-checker to conduct a keyword search for “Kung Fu effect video” on multiple social media platforms. This search returned multiple results from Facebook and TikTok, many of which contained a watermark from an AI tool called “Hailuo”. The presence of this watermark suggested that the video was artificially generated. To confirm, our fact-checker reviewed a tutorial demonstrating how such videos can be created using a single image and a text prompt. This shows that the viral video was likely created using such AI tool some online users deploy in making video deepfakes.
THE VERDICT
The claim that the video shows Ganduje fighting with Kwankwaso is MISLEADING, as the content is AI-generated.
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