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Alleged Certificate Forgery: Obaseki knows fate Saturday
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, fixed Saturday to deliver judgement on the certificate forgery case the All Progressives Congress, APC, and one its members, Mr. Williams Edobor, instituted against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed okayed the matter for judgement after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument.
While adopting his final written address, Obaseki, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Ken Mozia, SAN, urged the court to dismiss the suit, insisting that the Plaintiffs, failed to prove their allegation that he submitted forged credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
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Judge’s ill health stalls certificate forgery case against Obaseki, with 13 days remaining Posted by adminEdo, Headlines, Judiciary, State News Thursday, December 31st, 2020
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Abuja
With just thirteen days remaining in it’s constitutional lifespan of 180 days, the pre-election suit questioning the academic certificate of Edo state Governor, Godwin Obaseki suffered an adjournment on Thursday following the sudden illness of Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court.
The alleged Certificate forgery suit which was filed against Governor Obaseki by the All Progressive Congress (APC) and it’s chieftain, Williams Edobor on July 13, 2020 has a constitutional lifespan of 180 days which will become spent on January 13, 2021.
Edo: INEC tenders Obaseki’s nomination form in evidence
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…As court dismisses PDP’s suit against Ize-Iyamu
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, tendered in evidence before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the nomination form Governor Godwin Obaseki filled and submitted for the purpose of the governorship election that held in Edo State on September 19.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed admitted and marked the document known as Form EC9, with other attachments that accompanied it, as Exhibit PL-2.
He dismissed objection the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, raised to query the admissibility of the document, which INEC was summoned to produce before the court in the forgery case the All Progressives Congress, APC, instituted against Obaseki.
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
An Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Lagos, Emmanuel Balogun, on Wednesday, appeared as a witness in the certificate forgery case of the All Progressives Congress, APC, instituted against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State.
Prof Balogun who appeared as the third principal witness, PW-3, told the court that he has never set eyes on Obaseki’s original certificate.
He said he could therefore not comment on whether it was forged or not.
The witness went ahead and tendered the original copy of his own degree certificate in Agricultural Economics, which was awarded to him on July 6, 1979, by the University of Ibadan.
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday, tendered in evidence before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the nomination form Governor Godwin Obaseki filled and submitted for the purpose of the governorship election that held in Edo State on September 19.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed admitted and marked the document known as Form EC9, along with other attachments that accompanied it, as Exhibit PL-2.
He dismissed objection the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, raised to query the admissibility of the document which INEC was summoned to produce before the court in the forgery case the All Progressives Congress, APC, instituted against Obaseki.