A petition capable of kicking Andy Emmanuel Uba off his journey to the Senate has been filed at the National Assembly Election Tribunal in Awka, Anambra State. It asks the Tribunal to invalidate the election in the Anambra South Senatorial District and order a re-run as Mr. Uba was not qualified to have run for the Upper House in the first place.

The petition, filed by Mr. Ikechukwu Obiorah, who contested the election on the platform of the Accord Party, further alleges that the election was invalid by reason of corrupt practices and non-compliances with the provisions of the Electoral Act. He is asking the court to, among others:

• Disqualify Mr. Uba for giving false information in his election application;
• Set aside his election into the National Assembly for the Anambra South Senatorial District;
• Set aside the certificate of return issued to Mr. Uba by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and
• Order a fresh election for the Senate seat.

Also joined in the suit are the PDP, INEC, Prof. Kelechi Greco Okoye (the INEC Returning Officer for the Senatorial District), and Mr. Nicholas Ukachukwu, who, it is alleged, participated in the election as a second candidate of the PDP.

Mr. Obiorah alleges that Uba, the former presidential aide to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who was declared elected to the Senate in the April 9 election, tendered questionable documents to back his application to INEC to run for the seat.

Drawing attention to Mr. Uba’s declaration that he attended tertiary institutions that include Concordia University Canada, and California State University, the petitioner claims that Mr. Uba could not have been admitted in those institutions of learning because he lacked the minimum entry requirement. The petitioner also challenges Mr. Uba’s declaration of a “Bachelor of Science (AWAITING) 1985 -1992” in his application, saying, “The 1st Respondent is presently not enrolled in any University to be expecting any Bachelor of Science twenty (20 )years after his last academic adventure.”

The petition also asserts that Mr. Uba “not having completed any course of work necessary for the award of Bachelor of science patently gave false information when he claimed that he obtained Doctor of Science 1993 -1996.”
The petitioner says, “There is no University known as Buxton University London, in London or anywhere else in the United Kingdom. (At the hearing of the Petition, the Petitioner shall rely on the report of Home City Ltd, a verification and Research service company which verified the authenticity of the said Buxton University.)”

In 2006, a SaharaReporters investigation into Mr. Uba’s educational background showed he did not earn the Bachelor’s degree in Geology he claimed from Concordia University – a Canadian institution he said he attended from 1984. Official Concordia University records showed that he dropped out without completing the requirements for a Bachelor’s degree. The university’s alumni office of records said Concordia University had no record of Uba ever graduating from the school.

SaharaReporters investigations found similar problems with his claim to a Master’s degree from California State University, the official records of which showed Mr. Uba did not earn a Masters from there. Our investigations confirmed that while he did enroll at the school for an undergraduate programme to study Geography between September 27, 1990 and March 21, 1992, he never graduated.

We also looked into Mr. Uba’s claim to possessing a doctorate degree from Buxton University in the United Kingdom, which we declared to be “the worst of all” because in the absence of a first or a second degree, he could not have legitimately sought a doctorate degree.

Buxton University, our investigation found, was only an unaccredited online degree awarding institution with an address in Portugal, and notoriety for awarding bogus degrees to clients willing to pay a set fee

http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/andy-ubas-fake-credentials-resurface-anambra-election-tribunal

Hmmnn, another imbroglio.no lie can be covered for long. a lie can go on for 20 years,but surely  one day the truth will catch up with it.a lesson for us all.

*sigh* Makes Chris Uba a better man. At least he didn't lie.