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Edo: Court Fixes Date To Rule On APC’s Suit Against Obaseki

Edo: Court Fixes Date To Rule On APC’s Suit Against Obaseki

The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Saturday, January 9, for the ruling on the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s a suit against Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki.

TopNewsNaija reports that the APC and a chieftain, Williams Edobor, want Obaseki removed over alleged certificate forgery.

Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of the High Court fixed the date for judgment after lawyers to the parties adopted their written addresses.

The plaintiffs dragged Obaseki to court for allegedly forging the University of Ibadan (UI) degree certificate he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the September 19 governorship election.

The APC, in the suit filed on July 14, 2019, prayed that the court rules that Obaseki and his party were unfit to contest.

In adopting his written address, Obaseki’s lawyer, Ken Mozia (SAN) urged the court to throw out the plaintiffs’ case on the grounds that they failed to prove their allegation.

PDP’s lawyer, Rasaq Isenalumhe prayed the court to dismiss APC’s suit for being incompetent and unmeritorious.

On his part, INEC’s lawyer, Mohammed Bawa informed the court that the electoral umpire did not file any process because of its neutrality in the suit.

The plaintiffs through their lawyer, Akin Olujimi (SAN) urged the court to deliver judgment in their favour, owing to the strong evidence they were able to establish.

The plaintiffs called a total of six witnesses including two Associate Professors, who tendered their individual certificates obtained from the UI in 1978 and 1979 respectively.

Obaseki called three witnesses, among whom is UI Deputy Registrar, Legal, Abayomi Ajayi.

Ajayi confirmed that the institution issued the governor a certificate.

He said the fact that some parts of Obaseki’s certificate were missing in the photocopy attached to his form EC9 and 001 to INEC did not amount to forgery.

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