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Party Drags Ifeanyi Uba To Court Over NECO Certificate

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Party Drags Ifeanyi Uba To Court Over NECO Certificate

Simply barely 24 hours after senator representing Anambra South and governorship candidate of the Younger Progressive Social gathering (YPP), Senator Ifeanyi Uba, boasted that he would withdraw from the race if anyone produces a proof that he’s indebted to any financial institution, he has been hit by a court docket case difficult his eligibility to contest primarily based on his credentials.

 

Senator Uba had, whereas reacting to allegation that he’s owing banks, informed newsmen in Nnewi that no financial institution would accuse him of taking any mortgage.

The battle in opposition to Uba has shifted to the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja, the place a political get together has sued him, the YPP, his working mate, Okechukwu Nnamdi Eze, the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) and the Nationwide Examination Council (NECO) over his college certificates.

In swimsuit no FHC/ABJ/CS/ 939/2021, filed on August 18, 2021, the political get together claimed that type EC9 submitted by Uba to INEC was filled with false data.

The political get together, in an affidavit in assist of its originating declare, mentioned that the Nationwide Examination Council Certificates belonging to the 2nd Respondent (Uba) and submitted to the 4th Respondent (INEC) as a part of the paperwork accompanying the shape EC9 was on the face of it allegedly at variance with the licensed copy of 2nd Respondent’s actual certificates as issued by the fifth Respondent (NECO).

It mentioned that within the mentioned EC9 submitted to the 4th Respondent for the 2021 governorship elections of Anambra State, the 2nd Respondent allegedly submitted one other Nationwide Examination Council (NECO) certificates bearing Serial quantity 303865920 to the 4th Respondent which was duly accepted by the mentioned 4th Respondent.

The political get together mentioned the licensed true copy of the 2nd Respondent’s actual Nationwide Examination Council (NECO) certificates as issued by the fifth Respondent allegedly bears serial quantity 303565920 and that the Nationwide Examination Council Certificates with serial quantity 303865920 submitted by the 2nd Respondent to the 4th Respondent in Type EC9 as qualifying the 2nd Respondent to contest the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election is allegedly false.

The political get together is praying the court docket to find out whether or not NECO Certificates “issued in 2003 with serial quantity 303865920 submitted by the 2nd Respondent to the 4th Respondent for the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election is fake and totally different from the licensed true copy of the mentioned 1st Respondent’s actual Nationwide Examination Council Certificates bearing serial quantity 303565920 as issued by the fifth Respondent additionally in 2003?”

It additionally needs the court docket to find out whether or not the 2nd Respondent’s act of submitting to the 4th Respondent, a Nationwide Examination Council Certificates with serial quantity 303865920 which is allegedly totally different from the 2nd Respondent’s actual certificates bearing serial quantity 303565920 constitutes giving false data to the 4th respondent and a breach of Part 182(1)(j) of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended in addition to Part 31(6) of the Electoral Act as amended.

The plaintiff needs the court docket to find out whether or not the 2nd Respondent is disqualified from contesting the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election for allegedly giving false data to the 4th Respondent” and “whether or not the nomination of the 2nd respondent by the first respondent as its candidate for the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election just isn’t invalid and subsequently null and void.”

It’s nevertheless praying the court docket for a declaration “that the Nationwide Examination Council Certificates purportedly issued in 2003 with serial quantity 303865920 submitted by the 2nd Respondent to the 4th Respondent for the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election is fake and totally different from the licensed true copy of the mentioned 2nd Respondent’s Nationwide Examination Council Certificates bearing serial quantity 303565920 as issued by the fifth Respondent additionally in 2003.”

Additionally it is in search of a declaration that the 2nd Respondent’s act of submitting to the 4th Respondent, a Nationwide Examination Council Certificates with serial quantity 303865920 which is allegedly totally different from the 2nd Respondent’s certificates bearing serial quantity 303565920 constitutes giving false data to the 4th respondent and a breach of Part 182(1)(j) of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended in addition to Part 31(6) of the Electoral Act as amended.

The political get together additional seeks a declaration that the 2nd Respondent is disqualified from contesting the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election for allegedly giving false data to the 4th Respondent and a declaration that “the nomination of the 2nd Respondent by the first Respondent as its candidate for the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election is invalid and subsequently null and void.”

It subsequently needs the court docket to subject orders disqualifying the 2nd Respondent from contesting the 2021 gubernatorial election in Anambra State for allegedly giving false data to the 4th Respondents in addition to an order invalidating the nomination of the 2nd respondent by the first Respondent as its candidate for the forthcoming 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election.

It additionally needs an order “directing the 4th Respondent to take away the title of the 2nd Respondent from the listing of candidates for the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election” and an order “restraining the 4th respondent from inputting the title of the first respondent or the 2nd respondent on the poll for the 2021 Anambra State gubernatorial election.”