7
Narrative corridor

Sense the pulse, counter the claim, hold the record

Items, 14 days
900
public sources only
Net sentiment
-15
positive minus negative
Tracked claims
4
live
Responses cleared
2
of 2 drafted
Non-English
51%
of all items
Needs human read
211
below 0.65 confidence

Counter queue

Claims ranked by velocity against the vote they are reaching
c-2falseApprovedEnglishNigerian PidginIgbo

That result transmission will be suspended in specified states on presidential polling day.

First seen 27/08/2026 via Public post · spreading in Lagos, FCT, Rivers, Anambra

5.5×
velocity
12%
vote reached
200 mentionsCleared to send · Press statement
c-1unverifiedVerifyingHausaEnglish

That the party has agreed to zone the ticket away from the north ahead of the convention.

First seen 24/08/2026 via Public post · spreading in Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Bauchi

4.0×
velocity
21%
vote reached
218 mentionsNo response drafted
c-4substantially trueConcededEnglish

That the published capital project list omits contracts awarded in the last quarter.

First seen 18/08/2026 via Premium Times · spreading in FCT, Lagos

0.3×
velocity
7%
vote reached
212 mentionsCleared to send · Press statement
c-3unverifiedMonitoringHausaKanuriEnglish

That fuel supply disruptions in the north-east are being managed politically.

First seen 21/08/2026 via BBC News Hausa · spreading in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa

0.2×
velocity
7%
vote reached
236 mentionsNo response drafted

Response gate

Nothing sends without a named approver
r-1Press statement · EnglishAI assisted✓ cleared

Result transmission is INEC’s function and no campaign has any role in it. This campaign has asked INEC publicly to confirm transmission arrangements for every one of the 176,846 polling units, and will publish its own parallel count from accredited agents so that any discrepancy is visible to everyone at the same time.

Approved by Director of Communications, 28/08/2026, 08:15:00Approved. Do not name the states in the rumour — repeating them spreads it.

r-2Press statement · Englishhuman drafted✓ cleared

This is correct as reported. The list published in July closed at the end of the second quarter and did not carry awards made after it. An updated list with award dates and values follows this week, and the omission is noted on the record rather than removed.

Approved by Campaign Director-General, 19/08/2026, 16:20:00Concede it. Correcting the record is worth more than winning the exchange.

The gate is a type-level guard, not a workflow convention. An unapproved draft cannot reach a channel because the send path calls a function that throws on it. This is the single most important control in the module: it is what makes an AI-assisted response pipeline defensible in public.

Sentiment

900 items
22%
41%
37%
Positive196
Neutral371
Negative333

Language coverage

What the pipeline must read
English
439
Hausa
146
Nigerian Pidgin
114
Yoruba
84
Igbo
62
Kanuri
24
Fulfulde
21
Tiv
10

An English-only pipeline would be deaf to 51% of what is being said, concentrated in the north where the vote is heaviest.

Narrative desk queue

9 open
Material vote sitting in monitoring blind spots

7 states carrying 25.4% of the national vote generate materially less signal than their weight

Commission language-native monitoring in these states. No commercial media product samples them densely.

Claim accelerating with no approved response

218 mentions, velocity 4.0x, across states carrying 20.7% of the national vote

Draft and clear a response through the approval gate before the next news cycle.

Net-negative sentiment in a heavy state

Kaduna: net sentiment -24, 5.7% of the national vote, APC 29% in 2023

Brief the state narrative lead. Test message against the dominant local topic.

Net-negative sentiment in a heavy state

Lagos: net sentiment -15, 5.3% of the national vote, APC 45% in 2023

Brief the state narrative lead. Test message against the dominant local topic.

Net-negative sentiment in a heavy state

Plateau: net sentiment -17, 4.5% of the national vote, APC 28% in 2023

Brief the state narrative lead. Test message against the dominant local topic.

Net-negative sentiment in a heavy state

Bauchi: net sentiment -29, 3.6% of the national vote, APC 37% in 2023

Brief the state narrative lead. Test message against the dominant local topic.

Net-negative sentiment in a heavy state

Oyo: net sentiment -41, 3.4% of the national vote, APC 56% in 2023

Brief the state narrative lead. Test message against the dominant local topic.

Net-negative sentiment in a heavy state

Osun: net sentiment -33, 3.1% of the national vote, APC 47% in 2023

Brief the state narrative lead. Test message against the dominant local topic.

Net-negative sentiment in a heavy state

Adamawa: net sentiment -44, 3.0% of the national vote, APC 25% in 2023

Brief the state narrative lead. Test message against the dominant local topic.

What this desk will not do

Scope fixed in the type system
News425
Radio323
Official statement55
Field report54
Public social43
No private surfaces
SourceKind admits only the five kinds listed above. There is no variant for a private group, a direct message, or a profile of a named citizen, so the ingest path cannot express one. Adding one means changing a union in a reviewed commit — which is exactly the friction that should exist.
No covert operation
Every response carries a channel, a language and a named approver. The module is built so its full logs could be published without embarrassment — for a campaign positioned on transparency, the disclosure risk of anything else is existential.
No unreviewed counting
Items below 0.65 classifier confidence route to human review rather than into totals. Non-English classification is genuinely harder and the confidence model says so, which is why 211 items are queued.