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Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is championing strict measures for nationalist officials who usage fake certificates.
It is worthy recalling that the Minister of Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, is accused of making usage of forged certificates from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), according to an probe by PREMIUM TIMES.
During a tribunal proceeding successful Abuja connected Monday, Nnaji’s lawyer, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Sebastian Hon, frowned astatine the study during proceedings astatine the Federal High Court, adding that it was unfair and prejudicial.
Reacting to the development, Peter Obi, successful a connection connected Monday, stated that certificate forgery is simply a superior transgression that should not beryllium swept nether the carpet.
Also, Obi accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of its nonaccomplishment to halt issues similar this.
“Whenever I speech astir Nigeria being a transgression scene, those who are portion of the criminality and their hirelings volition rapidly commencement their noise-making, attacking and blackmailing me,” Obi writes connected his authoritative X account.
He continued: “But however bash you archer radical that those whose integrity, quality and behaviour are expected to beryllium exemplary and emulated successful nine person go the precise root of the nation’s decay?
“How bash you archer young Nigerians to beryllium honorable and upright erstwhile those they are expected to emulate are the slightest to beryllium emulated due to the fact that they are criminals and dishonest?
“Certificate forgery is simply a superior transgression offence successful each countries of the world. It is 1 of the astir corrupt practices heavy punished.
He added: “But successful my state Nigeria, though the laws are aforesaid arsenic successful different countries, that forgery is punished by contiguous disqualification, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) makes nary effort to scrutinize certificates earlier the elections, implicit looks complaints of forgery and erstwhile you challenged aft the elections, tribunal volition disregard the superior transgression issues arsenic “pre-election matters” without giving this transgression enactment due punishment.”
Obi besides made a examination of Nigeria’s effect to forgery with that of Indonesia, where, according to him, the instrumentality is wide and enforced.
He said: “In 1 of my knowledge-seeking visits to Indonesia aboriginal this year, aft interacting with respective ministers liable for Health, Villages, SMEs, Planning, and Education, arsenic good arsenic the Vice President and President Joko Widodo connected development, I met with the Chairman of the General Elections Commission of Indonesia.
“I asked him astir the acquisition qualifications required to enactment successful elections from section authorities to the authorities legislature, governorship, and up to the statesmanlike level. He openly stated these qualifi...
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