A Facebook (FB) page claims that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has decided to free former president Rodrigo Duterte after an alleged speech of a Nigerian Prince, Ali Ababwa, in support of the detained newly-elected mayor of Davao City. This is satire.
Posted on May 22, the satirical post featured a side-by-side photo of Duterte and the supposed prince with overlaid text that reads:
“People of the Philippines, I have saved your king!” – Prince Ali Ababwa after successfully persuading the ICC to free FPRRD”
The post bore a caption that stated:
“BREAKING NEWS!!! Nigerian prince frees Duterte from prison!.
Prince Ali Ababwa of Nigeria gave a passionate speech before the International Criminal Court (ICC) about the virtues of our great president Rodrigo Roa Duterte yesterday. Moved by Prince Ali’s speech, the ICC has decided to free Duterte.”
Some users in the comment section believed the post, expressing gratitude to the supposed royalty.
Duterte was not freed by the ICC.
A hashtag at the end of the post reads #satiretomgabobo. The FB user also wrote absurd translations in the caption of the post, claiming that the Filipino term malas is a word for “love” and sakit is “peace” in a Nigerian language.
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