A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to nullify the certificate of return issued to Christian Abah for the Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives of the forthcoming 8th National Assembly.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola, delivering judgment in the suit challenging Abah’s eligibility to stand for the election, held that the allegation of certificate forgery levelled against him, by the plaintiff, Mr. Hassan Saleh, was established to be true.
Abah was said to have forged an Ordinary National Diploma certificate in Accountancy purportedly obtained from the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, in 1985.
Justice Ademola said his findings revealed that an earlier judgment of the National/State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi delivered on September 6, 2011, and a letter by the Registrar of the polytechnic, Mr. Suleiman Buba, affirmed that the certificate presented by by Abah to INEC was forged.
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