Court urged to sack Senator over fake certificates
A Federal High Court in Abuja has been urged to
sack Senator Suleiman Asonya Adokwe,
representing Nasarawa South Senatorial
District, for allegedly presenting other people’s
certificates to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) for election.
Adokwe assumed office in December 2015
having successfully challenged the election of
Architect Salihu Hussaini Egyegbola in court.
Egyegbola of the All progressives Congress (APC)
was declared winner of the senatorial election
by INEC, a decision Adokwe contested at the
election tribunal.
He lost at the tribunal, but succeeded at the
Court of Appeal, which in a December 10, 2015
judgment voided Egyegbola’s election and
ordered INEC to return Adokwe as winner of
the election for the Nasarawa South Senatorial
District.
The plaintiff, Mohammed Abubakar Ozegya, in
the suit he filed through his lawyer, Mathew
Burkaa, before the Federal High Court, Abuja,
stated, in a supporting affidavit, that upon
Adokwe’s assumption of office, he discovered
from the Form CF001 he (Adokwe) submitted to
INEC, that the Senator presented certificates
bearing other people’s names.
Ozegya, who claimed to be an indigene of
Nasarawa State, said he discovered, in the
Form CF001CF001 (affidavit in support of
personal particulars of person seeking election
to the office or membership of the Senate)
deposed to on December 16, 2014 at the High
Court of Justice, Lafia, Nasarawa State, that the
1st defendant (Adokwe) “submitted the WAEC
certificate of one Adokwe Solomon and primary
school certificate of Sule Adokwai, purporting
same to be his.
“It is a notorious fact in the Nasarawa South
Senatorial District that the 1st defendant is, the
certificate of one Adokwe Solomon and Sule
Adokwai presented by the 1st defendant are
certainly not his certificates.
“It is even more surprising that the 2nd
defendant allowed the 1st defendant to use the
WAEC and primary School certificates of an
unknown third party to contest election in the
first place. By presenting the WAEC certificate of
one one Adokwe Solomon and Sule Adokwai in
his Form CF001, the 1st defendant is not fit to
continue to occupy the seat in the national
Assembly,” the plaintiff said.
sack Senator Suleiman Asonya Adokwe,
representing Nasarawa South Senatorial
District, for allegedly presenting other people’s
certificates to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) for election.
Adokwe assumed office in December 2015
having successfully challenged the election of
Architect Salihu Hussaini Egyegbola in court.
Egyegbola of the All progressives Congress (APC)
was declared winner of the senatorial election
by INEC, a decision Adokwe contested at the
election tribunal.
He lost at the tribunal, but succeeded at the
Court of Appeal, which in a December 10, 2015
judgment voided Egyegbola’s election and
ordered INEC to return Adokwe as winner of
the election for the Nasarawa South Senatorial
District.
The plaintiff, Mohammed Abubakar Ozegya, in
the suit he filed through his lawyer, Mathew
Burkaa, before the Federal High Court, Abuja,
stated, in a supporting affidavit, that upon
Adokwe’s assumption of office, he discovered
from the Form CF001 he (Adokwe) submitted to
INEC, that the Senator presented certificates
bearing other people’s names.
Ozegya, who claimed to be an indigene of
Nasarawa State, said he discovered, in the
Form CF001CF001 (affidavit in support of
personal particulars of person seeking election
to the office or membership of the Senate)
deposed to on December 16, 2014 at the High
Court of Justice, Lafia, Nasarawa State, that the
1st defendant (Adokwe) “submitted the WAEC
certificate of one Adokwe Solomon and primary
school certificate of Sule Adokwai, purporting
same to be his.
“It is a notorious fact in the Nasarawa South
Senatorial District that the 1st defendant is, the
certificate of one Adokwe Solomon and Sule
Adokwai presented by the 1st defendant are
certainly not his certificates.
“It is even more surprising that the 2nd
defendant allowed the 1st defendant to use the
WAEC and primary School certificates of an
unknown third party to contest election in the
first place. By presenting the WAEC certificate of
one one Adokwe Solomon and Sule Adokwai in
his Form CF001, the 1st defendant is not fit to
continue to occupy the seat in the national
Assembly,” the plaintiff said.
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