Former Labour Party Presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to verify certificates of candidates running for public office.
In a post on social media, Obi recalled that many public office holders are parading forged certificates backed by fraudulent affidavits, which they used in 2023, after “scaling through” both INEC, security and Senate screening with forged documents.
The former Anambra State governor stressed the danger of making crime a norm, saying he usually gets attacked and blackmailed by those who are part of the criminality, whenever he talks about Nigeria being a crime scene.
He however urged the electoral umpire to put an end to the ugly trend, to prevent people with questionable backgrounds from being elected.
His comment follows a shocking confession by the minister of science and technology, Uche Nnaji, who admitted that the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), never gave him a degree certificate confirming reports of forged credentials.
The controversy over his certificate began in July 2023 when President Tinubu included Nnaji among the first batch of ministerial nominees.
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