₦airaland Forum

Indispensable85:
This one is preelection case.

Issues of nomination of candidates associated with Primaries are pre-election cases and cannot come up in the tribunal.

So, on that issue....he can only continue it at the Court where it had already been filed.

fergie001:
Issues of nomination of candidates associated with Primaries are pre-election cases and cannot come up in the tribunal.

So, on that issue....he can only continue it at the Court where it has already been filed.

OK, for me I think the election was free and fair but the issue of qualification is dicey. I've seen an affidavit he swore to in 2016 which content is in variance with his new credentials. I don't know if that's crucial.

Indispensable85:
OK, for me I think the election was free and fair but the issue of qualification is dicey. I've seen an affidavit he swore to in 2016 which content is in variance with his new credentials. I don't know if that's crucial.

It is crucial with a caveat.
I have heard about the affidavit but it also cannot remove Obaseki.

Indispensable85:
I'm interested in no 2. It can send the governor packing.

I suspect this guy is Pa Ehinmen3 or GodlessGod. Still crying after the election.
Ize Iyamu have no case.

Antoeni:
*REJOINDER*

UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WORLDWIDE PRESS RELEASE 10TH JUNE 2020
GODWIN N. OBASEKI AN ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

As concerned Nigerians, our attention has been drawn to the mischievous, ill-conceived, ill-motivated, and unwitting attempt by one Professor Elsie O. Adewoye acting In capacity of President University of Ibadan Alumni Association Worldwide, to aid and abet criminal forgery of Certificate and false claim by Mr Godwin Obaseki of being an alumni of the prestigious University of Ibadan; a controversy that has lingered on since his emergence as Governor of Edo State in 2016. It is in legal records that it was the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) where he now found refuge that challenged the validity of his credentials as the basis for his removal from office as governor, but was saved the embarrassment by the logical argument and precedence advanced by the APC legal team on the technical ground that the matter was filled out of time.

Professor Oluwoye posited that Mr Godwin Obaseki entered into the University of Ibadan in 1976 and graduated in 1979 from the department of Classical Studies. On the contrary in a sworn affidavit in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in the Abuja Judicial Division dated 7th June 2016 Mr Godwin Obaseki deposed that he was admitted into the University of Ibadan in 1973 and graduated in 1976. In the same affidavit he deposed that he proceeded to serve his country in the compulsory NYSC program between 7th of August 1979 to 6th of August 1980 were he obtained his NYSC discharge certificate dated 6th of August 1980. Mr Godwin Obaseki is not known or associated with any record of mental history. To this end it cannot be said that he was out of his mind when he deposed to the affidavit in a court of competent jurisdiction. Furthermore he claimed in the same affidavit that his credentials were missing and promised to produce them in due course.

However in June 2020 Mr Godwin Obaseki provided the screening committee of the APC a University of Ibadan degree certificate that had only the signature of the Vice Chancellor and no date of issue, which is a complete departure from the actual UI certificate with carries the signatures of the Vice Chancellor, that of the Registrar, as well as the official date of issue. When it was faulted he again provided the same screening committee meeting with a certificate that had the signatures of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar, as well as the date of issue. Can a University offer two certificate that are at variance in content to the same graduand? This action simply portray Mr Godwin Obaseki as a smart criminal.

This inference is justified by the fact that this certificate which is claimed to have been obtained in 1979 is a diametrical contrast to the sworn affidavit he deposed which has it that he graduated in 1976. These bundle of contradictions simply lend credence to the hideous truth in life that a liar has no memory.

Also granted the fact that Mr Godwin Obaseki studied at the University of Ibadan, the entry requirement of five credits at the ordinary level for entry into the institution was not met, as his ordinary results in 1973 contained only three credit passes without English and Mathematics. Apart from the fact that three credits could not have earned him admission into the institution, there was no preliminary studies in place at the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences in the University of Ibadan at that time. It was indeed in 1985/1986 academic session that preliminary study classes was introduced into the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences in the University of Ibadan. Obviously entwined and entangled by his bundle of contradictions, Mr Godwin Obaseki resorted to the claim of obtaining Higher School Leaving Certificate from the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). In the first place, a Higher School Leaving Certificate does not exist. What we have in our educational curriculum is Higher School Certificate (HSC). The Testimonial from ICE indicated that Obaseki offered three principal subjects, General Paper and English Language. The fact is that English Language as a subject is not offered at the advanced level stage rather the General Paper suffices for English Language subjects for candidates with deficiencies in English Language at the ordinary level mainly science students. Moreover ICE is not a certificate awarding institution, and Mr Obaseki did not indicate wether the subjects he claimed to have offered and passed were obtained from WAEC, HSC/AL or University of London GCE AL. These two examination bodies exist for verification of his ‘A' level scroll claims. Oddly enough, Mr Obaseki did not present the certificate for his higher school career in ICE as he claims. In these unsettled controversies Prof. Adewoye's defense of Godwin Obaseki tantamounts defending the indefensible. Assuming that Mr Godwin Obaseki attended the University of Ibadan which is most doubtful, his requirement at the point of his entry did not qualify him for admittance into the institution. What the likes of Prof. Adewoye ought to have done in the circumstance was to deeply investigate in the Subject of controversy before coming out with a Press Release. Inversely, if Godwin Obaseki was found to have gained entry into the institution improperly as the deficiencies in his credentials reveal, the University ought to publicly denounce and withdraw the certificate. This such-like scenario played out in the University of Lagos in 1972/1973 session when the then Vice Chancellor Prof. J.F Ade-Ajayi officially denounced and published names of students with deficiencies in admission requirements, who were aided and abetted into the institution by one Mr Owosho in the admission office. It will be recalled that those who had graduated were published and their certificates withdrawn by the University while those undergoing studies were automatically expelled. This action restored credibility to the graduates of the University of Lagos been found worthy in knowledge and in character.

My advice to Prof. Adewoye who is obviously misinformed is to critically investigate the controversy surrounding Mr Obaseki rather than standing out in his defense. From the inconveniences and contradictions in his academic claims, let it be that the University of Ibadan a world renowned academic institution should lend doubts to the credibility of certificates issued by the institution. I give benefit of doubt to the Press Release from the alumni association and at the same time challenge the authorities of the institution embodied in in the personalities of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar to come out with an official statement as to whether the entry qualification of five credits in the ordinary level WAEC/GCE was at any time altered in the academic history of the institution. My advice is that resulting from the institutional failure experienced in Nigeria, the academian is the only hope for breeding leaders that will in turn help change our nation. This is why Professor E.O. Adewoye should not lend credence to the belief that our actions is inspired by pecuniary rewards. To this end, all the Alumni Association centers of the University of Ibadan should rise up to the defense of great UI by not allowing a smart forger of certificates defame the reputation of the noble University of Ibadan. It is obvious that the more attempts by Godwin Obaseki to belie the truth concerning his certificate forgery and false claim of attending the University of Ibadan, the more his crooked activities are uncovered. It is now substantiated that the case is in the domain of the court for proof and validation. As to any prediction involving the outcome, time will tell.

No source?
UI management that came to inform the public that the Governor is an Alumnus was also fake?
Nysc that came out to issued him with certificate was also fake?

You can deceive yourself.

Stolen mandate indeed. Food don done for lawyers last last.

Unigrad:
I suspect this guy is Pa Ehinmen3 or GodlessGod.
Still crying after the election.

Ize Iyamu have no case.

What's my business with that?

fergie001:
It is crucial with a caveat.
I have heard about the affidavit but it also cannot remove Obaseki.

Let's see sha... It's all good for our jurisprudence.

Indispensable85:
Let's see sha... It's all good for our jurisprudence.

You are correct.

I will discuss more when the tribunal date elapses whether Ize-Iyamu files a case or not.

[quote author=fergie001 post=94540894][/quote]. He has his right to do so If he thinks he has evidences. In my opinion qualification of Obaseki academically will be a better focus of his petition. not how the election was conducted.

ejimatic:
. He has his right to do so If he thinks he has evidences. In my opinion qualification of Obaseki academically will be a better focus of his petition. not how the election was conducted.

Yes, he has a right to but I think it will amount to an abuse of Court process (when thoroughly argued) having instituted same as a pre-election matter which is pending.

fergie001:
Yes, he has a right to but I think it will amount to an abuse of Court process (when thoroughly argued) having instituted same as a pre-election matter which is pending.

yes that is already pending...

ejimatic:
yes that is already pending...

That's the one I really think he should deal with....with the election proper, he will get nothing.

Mugu, stop misleading people with your myopic analysis, the Supreme Court never deliberate on membership of a party, what the deliberated on was; if Uche Nwosu was right or wrong to have obtain nomination forms from 2 political party

Jimalicoco:
1.He has no issue to answer as it depends on the school who gave him admission to defend that...
2.He resign his membership which give him room to join another party,note that Uche Nwosu never resign his membership
3.Yes,see above

fergie001:
That's the one I really think he should deal with....with the election proper, he will get nothing.

. Even if he goes to the supreme court he cannot get a favourable judgement based on the conduct of the election.... However, some politicians go to court not to win but to put it on record that the election results are contested legally.

ejimatic:
. Even of he foes to the supreme court he cannot get a favourable judgement based on the conduct of the election.... However, some politicians go to court not to win but to put it on record that the election results are contested legally.

Lawyers must chop!

fergie001:
Lawyers must chop!

. Yes for sure!

He still have some money available to spend. Until he spent his last kobo he will never listen. Ego kill faster than Covic19.

[quote author=24enjay post=94550356]Mugu, stop misleading people with your myopic analysis, the Supreme Court never deliberate on membership of a party, what the deliberated on was; if Uche Nwosu was right or wrong to have obtain nomination forms from 2 political party



Who is right now?