The ongoing legal battle over certificate forgery involving Akan Okon; the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Umo Eno and the electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the Federal High Court, Uyo, has taken an interesting turn, documents exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters have revealed.

Okon, a contestant in the May 25 governorship primary of the PDP in Akwa Ibom is dragging Eno, the winner of the said election to court on the allegations that he is using a forged West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination result in his bid to become the governor of the state.

According to an original copy of a letter exclusively obtained by our SaharaReporters, the examination body, West African Examinations Council (WAEC) confirmed that Umo Eno's certificate does not exist in its records.

In the letter dated 8th April 2022 and signed by T. A. Ademola, WAEC Exams and Records, while responding to a request for confirmation of Eno's 1983 results, the examination body stated that it could not certify the certificate because it did not issue it.

“This is to notify you that the certificate No. PO 275878 A for candidate No. 15725119 of December 1983 submitted for certification by you does not exist in our records hence we cannot certifywhat we did not issue,” the letter read.

Responding to Okon's earlier statement of claim to the Federal High Court, Eno in his statement of defence denied all the allegations.

His written defence was accompanied by a copy of ‘Confirmation of Result’.

The documents filed by Pastor Eno are ‘Confirmation of Result’ for his 1981 and 1983 certificates which were addressed to the Attorney General/Commissioner for Justice of Akwa Ibom State.

However, Okon, through his lawyers, has opened more loopholes in Eno's statement of defence by highlighting more discrepancies in the confirmation of the results.

According to Okon's reply, while the 1983 confirmation of results has Eno Umo Bassey as the candidate’s name, the 1981 version has Bassey Umo Eno as the candidate’s name, adding that WAEC does not have Umo Eno as the holder of May/June 1981 GCE O/L but the name of Bassey Umo Eno.

“Having supplied the name of the candidate that wrote the examination in 1981, the examining body indicated in the last paragraph of her letter thus: ‘You will have to satisfy yourself that he/she and Bassey Umo Eno of our record, are one and the same person,’” Okon noted.

Okon further noted that there is a disparity in the name of the school. He stated that while the certificate carries Victory High School, Ikeja as the examination centre, the Confirmation of Result bears Victory High School ‘1’, Ikeja.

Another disparity highlighted was in the subjects. In the 1981 Certificate, “Religious Knowledge” is recorded as one of the four subjects, while “Bible Knowledge” is one of the six subjects in the Confirmation of Result.

In the 1981 certificate, the candidate number 15520232 has no punctuation mark inserted in between the digits, and the 1981 confirmation of result has 15520/232 as the candidate number with a slash (/).

Just like in the case of the 1981 certificate and confirmation of results, the main certificate of the 1983 WAEC has 15725119 (without punctuation sign) as candidate number while his confirmation of result for the same year has candidate number (15725/119) with a slash.

“The implication flowing from the discrepancies in the certificates presented by the 2nd Defendant to the 1st Defendant for his screening shows him as having names namely; Bassey Umo Eno - 1981 WAEC result; Eno Umo Bassey - 1983 WAEC result; Umo Bassey Eno - name used on his application to the 1st Defendant,” Okon added.

Okon's reply further stated, “As the policy of West African Examination Council, internal candidates writing the examination for the first time or even thereafter have to enter a minimum of eight ( subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. The Confirmation of Result issued by the Examining Body show that Bassey Umo Eno entered for six (6) subjects, excluding English Language, a compulsory subject.

“The certificate relied upon by 2nd Defendant, apart from not bearing his name has other striking distinctions from the letter of confirmation of result issued by the examining body and so the certificate presented at the screening of the 1st Defendant was not and can never have been his certificate”.

It can be recalled that in his statement of claim, Okon had alleged that Eno's name does not exist in INEC's database as a registered voter because his voter card was forged.

In addition, a photocopy of Eno's voter card submitted to the PDP screening committee bears 01-01-1964 as his date of birth but his curriculum vitae and credentials bear 24th April, 1964.

Okon, in his reply to Eno's defence, further emphasised that he does not have an authentic voter card.

“In answer to paragraph 11 of the statement of defence of the 2nd Defendant, the Plaintiff shall at the trial of this case rely on the certified true copy of the voter's register of Unit 06 Ward 02, Nsit Ubium Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State in addition to the relevant sections of his pleadings in paragraph 7 of the statement of claim to show that the 2nd Defendant does not have any authentic voter's card.

“The Plaintiff, therefore, pleads that having forged his certificates and the school he purportedly attended, the 2nd Defendant ought to have been disqualified from participating in the primaries and that having taken part in the said primaries, his votes ought to be declared void votes and the Plaintiff having scored the highest valid votes ought to declared and presented as the candidate of the 1st Defendant to fly the flag of 1st Defendant in the 2023 Governorship election.”

https://saharareporters.com/2022/07/10/exclusive-forgery-case-waec-confirms-school-certificate-akwa-ibom-governor%E2%80%99s-stooge-umo

There's something I still cannot understand, why are those who doesn't have verifiable school records but claim to be educated be trying to contest elections in Nigeria?

We need to elect credible candidates whom we are seeing their educational records.

Polithiefcians, Na there way

Happening now in Osun State.

Delta,now akwa ibom

OBIdiently vote for me, you won't regret it.

Why do you want a man that is not healthy enough to bend and pray to hand over power to another man of his kind??

Think think and think again.

Remain OBIdient.

PresidObi:
There's something I still cannot understand, why are those who doesn't have verifiable school records but claim to be educated be trying to contest elections in Nigeria?

We need to elect credible candidates whom we are seeing their educational records.

Even this blood sucking animal that killed Funsho Williams is yet to show us his certificates or the primary and secondary schools he attended.

INEC is a scam to the country's elections
How did people like this remained relevant in politics?
I mean TINUBU and his crew of certificate issues

Et tu, Brutus! Even a so called pastor dey force certificate. Una see why I say religion na scam? Una no dey practise wetin una preach but una dey carry arab and white man religion dey disturb us.
I blame Jonathan for not stopping Buhari when it was discovered that he was certificateless.
There's no institution that is working again in this country apart from terrorism.

This one loud ooo

Like Agbado. Nawa o.

Tell someone why they should vote Peter Obi today. Then do it everyday. Peter Obi is our choice. Peter Obi ni awa omoluabi ma dibo fun.

Penalty82:
Why do you want a man that is not healthy enough to bend and pray to hand over power to another man of his kind??

Think think and think again.

Those that are healthy didn't do well, why not try unhealthy people?

Easy that is.

Simply remind him to forward his certificates, rather than call him out on social media.

INEC should be more concerned about conducting more credible elections and ensuring more than enough election materials getting to polling booths and people early on Election Day.

E dun red

I think What we need to ask is that how were they able to get to that level?

Secondly, someone that has been fraudulently aiming for public office, what do we think they we have to offer?

So to me, nothing will ever change in Nigeria if thesame set of people keep rulling us.

Tell me how can you give what you don't have?

Is it possible for them to have passed through rigorous academic challenge and still failed not to address our epileptic education?

Do you ever know the kind of lost companies are incurring due to unstable power supply?

Can you imagine what our transport route is bringing as loss?

Soldiers are dying day in day out with no hope of better and sophisticated equipment

All these should baffle our intelligence capacity


Let know what we are doing as a citizen of this country.........

Cares

Even PDP



Only OBI we Know

Albino. Even you too

Even Albino sef wan follow lick oil
Make them search well na abi Wetin make we do

No wonder our education is in shambles.. majority of our leaders don't believe in education.

Are we not tired of PDP and APC.

Who no like better thing? Make we naija people appreciate and accept better thing wey LP dey offer us. Make we do our part and give real change a chance.

One day day go break and naija go better again.

God of Peter OBI is alive. Finally God say time for naija to be rescued.

This life no balance but we must balance naija small and vote in Labor Party.

I just saw a video of an arab guy pooping inside a girls mouth. It’s not torture o. She did it for money.

Watch it here.

https://gist.am/question/video--ig-influencers-are-being-paid-for-wealthy-dubai-men-and-camels-to-poo-on

Another one...

garfield1:
Delta,now akwa ibom

Except on technicalities, this one is gone.

PresidObi:
There's something I still cannot understand, why are those who doesn't have verifiable school records but claim to be educated be trying to contest elections in Nigeria?

We need to elect credible candidates whom we are seeing their educational records.

And where they even manage to muster one, it's full of odozky!

babyfaceafrica:


Those that are healthy didn't do well, why not try unhealthy people?

All of them did better than unhealthy Buhari.
Don't be deceived.

Very good. Udom wants to force his stooge down our throat.

He didn't know that Akpabio performed brilliantly before we accepted Udom thinking he'll also tow the path.

A rat thinking himself a cow. Anyway, all the aspirants in the state are ok for me. I might not vote during governorship election. But you see presidential? I go fight who no vote PO.

Make all of una commot for my face both INEC, WAEC, Court and some Nigerians.

Buhari no certificate, Tinubu the same thing.
So, why are they disturbing people over certificate matter.

Make them go sleep.

Very good WAEC

Wahala no dey finish