Rep drags PDP National Assembly candidate to court for certificate forgery.

                                 

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate to represent Ado/Opoku/Ogbadibo federal constituency of Benue state, in the House of Representatives, Mr Christian Abah has been sued to court for certificate forgery. 

The suit against Mr. Abah was filed by the member currently representing the Ado/Opoku/ Ogbadibo Federal Constituency in the House, Hassan Sale. 

Mr Hassan Sale filed the suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja asking the court to disqualify Abah for allegedly presenting forged certificates to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. 

Earlier, INEC had already said Abah will be declared elected by the commission as there were no opposing candidate against him in the forthcoming poll, based on on the provision of Section 41 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). 

However, Hassan in his suit numbered FHC/ABJ/989/14 filed through his counsel, Mathias Emeribe, alleged that Abah committed perjury for allegedly lying on oath when he claimed in his INEC Form CF 001 that he never presented forged certificate to the commission. 

To support his allegation, the plaintiff presented an Affidavit which claimed that Abah had in 2011 in his INEC Form CF 001 claimed to have attended the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi from 1982-1983 and obtained a National Diploma in Accountancy. 

The plaintiff said a letter from the institution showed otherwise.

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