Edo Guber: PDP Exposes Obaseki, Says He Has No Academic Certificates
Godwin Obaseki, APC Gubernatorial Candidate[/caption]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, alleged that the Edo state Governorship candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Godwin Obaseki, has no academic certificates.
Obaseki was alleged to have sworn an affidavit dated June 7, 2016, where he declared his academic credentials missing, a statement the PDP has found fallacious and lacking in merit.
The Edo state chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, during the party’s rally in Benin made public a copy of the said affidavit where Obaseki claimed to have lost the original copies of his primary, secondary, university and National Youths Service Corps’ (NYSC) discharged certificates.
Advertisement
In the affidavit displayed by Orbih, Obaseki claimed that, “all originals of my above said certificates are kept in a safe custody in my office but, unfortunately, during the process of relocating from one office to another, I misplaced the original of the above said original documents.”
Orbih said “the reasons he (Obaseki) advanced are so flimsy and unconvincing. There are many questions begging for answers. The affidavit does not contain the locations of where he was moving from and to or the state where he lost the certificates.
“Did he report to the police when he lost the certificates? If it was reported at the time they got missing, we want him to tell us.
“One will expect that he must have reported the matter to the police. If he did, why did he not attach a copy of the police extract?
Advertisement
“We also do not understand the choice of an Abuja High Court. Did he do that so that Edo people will not know that he claimed he lost his certificates? Is it not unusual that someone will keep his certificates in the office?
“We don’t want to have a careless governor who will misplace vital state documents and give flimsy excuses. Edo State deserves a better person.”
In swift reaction on Monday, Obaseki’s camp in a veiled response simply said the PDP is “chasing shadows,” adding that the affidavit was “self-explanatory.”
“It is an old trick used by the PDP that has always failed them. They did it to (Adams) Oshiomhole. They did it to (Muhammadu) Buhari and now it is the turn of Obaseki,” said the Deputy Director, Communication, Media and Publicity of the Obaseki Campaign Organisation, Greg Ogiogwa.
