*Clears Him Of Certificate Forgery
Following a widespread allegation of forging the National Examination Council (NECO) he presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INECE) leveled against Senator Ifeanyi Ubah by Obinna Uzoh, the Council has officially confirmed the certificate he submitted to INEC as original and authentic.
In a letter NECO/R/LGS/20/003, dated 23rd January 2020 and addressed to Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), Ubah and Young People’s Party (YPP) the examination body released the result details and cleared Ubah of all allegations of Forgery.
HURIWA had written to NECO, to authenticate or deny the certificate issued to Ubah.
In the letter, responding to the request, NECO confirmed that Ifeanyi Ubah took a total of eight subjects, had credits in seven and failed one, biology.
NECO further explained that the conventional and obtainable practice among examination bodies is that failed subjects are not recorded on the certificate it issues to candidates noting that the failed subject remains in the examination body’s database.
He said such will continue to appear in both the statement of results and confirmation of results usually sent to educational institutions.
The letter which was signed by the Council’s Head of Department Legal and Board Affairs Comfort Kolo Esq. for the Acting Registrar/ Chief Executive and dates January 23rd reads: “In all, we state with every sense of duty and responsibility that both the statement of result and the certificate are genuine. They both emanated from the council and correspond with the records in our database.“
Addressing newsmen, Senator Ubah said he was not given any fair hearing from the court which gave a judgment in favour of Uzoh.
He said he was never served nor given any opportunity to defend himself.
The senator said the judgment will not stand, as he has already filed an appeal challenging it. He said he needed to clear his name and set the records straight.
According to him “It is also a well known fact that I submitted my certificate to INEC and not my statement of result. It is very obvious that those trying to malign Senator Ifeanyi Ubah are mischievous and ignorant elements who do not understand the difference between a “certificate of result” and “statement of result” because over 20 million Nigerians are aware of the fact that this practice is not only obtainable in NECO, but WAEC also.
“This is because certificates are honorariums which shouldn’t carry failed subjects, as opposed to statement of results which only serve for record purposes in the institution(s) database,” Senator Ubah said.
