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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
on Friday told the Bayelsa state governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has cleared Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, the deputy governor, of forging his exemption certificate.

NYSC had on Thursday admitted in evidence a letter to the department of state security (DSS) admitting that it corrected a spelling error on Ewrhrudakpo’s exemption certificate.

While addressing the three-member tribunal headed by Ibrahim Sirajo on Friday, Ibrahim Bawa, counsel to INEC, said since NYSC that issued the exemption certificate came out to admit that it indeed issued the certificate in dispute, the commission saw no need to call any witness.

Also speaking, Emmanuel Enoedem, counsel to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said the evidence tendered by the NYSC clearly exonerated the deputy governor of any wrongdoing as alleged by the petitioner, Vijah Opuamah of the Liberation Movement.

PDP said the evidence Opuama presented before the tribunal supported the position of the deputy governor, prompting the party not to call any witness in defence of the petition.

Opuama is challenging Ewhrudjakpo’s qualification to stand in the Bayelsa state governorship election, on the grounds that the deputy governor submitted a forged exemption certificate to INEC before the election.

“Our candidate, the deputy governor of Bayelsa state, has been exonerated of any wrongdoing by the NYSC, which issued him its exemption certificate. So, we don’t have to waste the precious time of the honourable tribunal by calling witnesses to tender documents that have already been presented to the tribunal by the petitioner,” Enoedem told journalists at the court premises.

“Clearly, the deputy governor has been cleared of the forgery allegation by the relevant authorities in the matter.”

After listening to the submissions of the PDP and the NYSC in the matter, Sirajo adjourned the suit till June 17 for Diri Duoye, governor of Bayelsa, and his deputy to open their defence in the petition.

On Tuesday, Ewhrudjakpo had also picked holes in the certificates of Opuama, the petitioner and governorship candidate of the Liberation Movement in the last governorship poll in the state.

The deputy governor, through his lawyer, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume, while cross-examining Opuama who testified in his petition challenging Ewhrudjakpo’s victory in the election, had told the tribunal that there were inconsistencies in the first school leaving certificate as well as the certificate of the senior secondary certificate examination (SSCE) of the petitioner submitted to INEC.

Opuama, through his counsel, Pius Danba, had on Tuesday closed his case after calling three out of 30 witnesses to testify against the nomination of Ewhrudjakpo for the November 16, 2019 governorship election.

At Tuesday’s proceedings, Opuama who served as third witness, was confronted with discrepancies in his own certificates by Ewhrudjakpo’s lawyer.

The director-general of the DSS, one of the witnesses who testified on behalf of Opuama, had told the tribunal that NYSC actually effected the change of name on the exemption certificate issued to Ewhrudjakpo.

https://www.thecable.ng/nysc-cleared-bayelsa-dep-gov-of-forgery-says-inec/amp?fbclid=IwAR0SgQHc1IYH3DH7-1KgRTRsc9gwToSLonBmLA3WdExDZVmFT950cu9UW9E

Cc fergie001

I will like to congratulate the people of Bayelsa and their 'Valentine' Governor.....Douye Diri and his Deputy, Lawrence.

I am hopeful that the lessons of the past few months should enable you deliver the democratic dividends to the people of Bayelsa.


Accept my hearty congratulations in advance, again.

Good fr him

THE GOVERNOR AND HIS DEPUTY ARE CHOSEN PEOPLE

No force can withstand

AAA593, morning.

Please are you still in that respondent group?

This supreme court governor will be removed before next year

Reality11:
AAA593, morning.

Please are you still in that respondent group?

Closed

...After insulting the conductor and calling him all sorts of names then BOOM, you couldn't find the money in your pocket to pay him*....

Dansuqi:
This supreme court governor will be removed before next year

Na u one remove am?

AAA593:
Closed

Died out due to lack of activities to do in the group or?

Is there any of such group because I'll like to join.

I have not been seeing you in domain thread or do you just observe

Case closed, apc looking for back down route as usual. Cursed party

Reality11:
Died out due to lack of activities to do in the group or?

Is there any of such group because I'll like to join.

I have not been seeing you in domain thread or do you just observe

I'm in a group. I'm not commenting and sharing sales reports there anymore. How your side?

AAA593:
I'm in a group. I'm not commenting and sharing sales reports there anymore.

How your side?

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Reality11:
Everything is fine, just that Domaining is giving me though time. My sale ratio or investment/profit margin is too poor. 43 geo + 16 other names with only 6 sales(~$1k after comission) and what I spent so far is about 200k. Thus 50% of them bought between October- january while the rest are not more then 2+ months old.

Please can I have your WhatsApp or I drop mine, i want to hear about how you approach this domain stuff because I want to make it a full time job.

Drop yours

Reality11:
Everything is fine, just that Domaining is giving me though time. My sale ratio or investment/profit margin is too poor. 43 geo + 16 other names with only 6 sales(~$1k after comission) and what I spent so far is about 200k. Thus 50% of them bought between October- january while the rest are not more then 2+ months old.

Please can I have your WhatsApp or I drop mine, i want to hear about how you approach this domain stuff because I want to make it a full time job.

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AAA593:
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good night to APC

slivertongue:
good night to APC

Up apc

Dansuqi:
Up apc

haba

fergie001:
I will like to congratulate the people of Bayelsa and their 'Valentine' Governor.....Douye Diri and his Deputy, Lawrence.

I am hopeful that the lessons of the past few months should enable you deliver the democratic dividends to the people of Bayelsa.


Accept my hearty congratulations in advance, again.

Not yet

Nigeria politicians and certificate inconsistency. At least, this one has been exonerated unlike the one sitting his ass in ass0rock.