South African influencer Leshaan Dagama has spoken up about the ongoing controversy over a private jet video with Edo North senator Adams Oshiomhole, insisting the clip is real.
The video, which circulated widely on social media, showed Oshiomhole massaging the foot of a woman believed to be Dagama while seated in a luxurious private aircraft.
The senator’s media team in a lengthy post, denied the video’s authenticity, claiming it was created using artificial intelligence and suggesting it was intended to damage his reputation.
Dagama, however, contradicted that claim in a fresh post on her Instagram Stories on February 4, 2026.
She wrote, “Video wasn’t AI but okay believe your senator.”
To further verify this claim, The Whistler applied multiple deepfake detection tools to the circulating clip, including Deepware Scanner, Zhuque AI Detection Assistant, AU Video Detector, Sight Engine, and Hive AI Deepfake Detection.
These tools analysed for visual artefacts (such as hand/finger inconsistencies, lip-sync mismatches, unnatural facial blending, or lighting errors), audio patterns, metadata inconsistencies, and provenance signals.
The scans showed no detectable hallmarks of generative AI manipulation, with high confidence scores indicating the video is authentic footage rather than synthetically created or significantly altered by current AI video generation methods.
Verdict:
FALSE: The claim that the video is AI-generated lacks supporting evidence and is contradicted by the woman’s public response implying the event occurred, the absence of detectable AI artefacts in the clip, and results from deepfake detection tools that confirmed no signs of AI generation or manipulation.
As of Thursday morning, the video appears to be genuine footage rather than an AI fabrication. This assessment is based on current available reporting, contextual evidence, and tool-based verification and could be updated if credible new forensic evidence or higher-resolution source analysis emerges later.
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