Enugu PDP tackles NYSC for insisting Gov-elect Mba forged certificate

Enugu PDP tackles NYSC for insisting Gov-elect Mba forged certificate

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu says the claim by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) that Peter Mbah, the state’s governor-elect, forged his discharge certificate is borne out of malice.

The NYSC Director-General, Brigadier-General Yushau’u Ahmed however said he had met with the governor-elect and told him that the certificate is fake.

Mbah had said that after graduating from the University of East London in 2000, he returned to Nigeria and was admitted into the bar Part 1 programme of the Nigerian Law School.

He said he was required to wait for the Bar Part 2 programme upon completing the first leg and was told to enrol in the one-year NYSC programme instead of wasting time sitting around.

After six months of the NYSC, Mbareporredlyh applied and was granted approval to defer the one-year mandatory programme to enable him to complete the bar final exam, after which he was re-mobilised to finish the service, which he did complete, Emeka Ozoani, his lawyer told a court.

But in February, NYSC issued a letter signed by Ibrahim Muhammad, the scheme’s director of certifications, saying the certificate belonging to Mbah was not issued by the corps.

Mbah subsequently sued the NYSC for alleged conspiracy, deceit, and misrepresentation of facts, demanding N20 billion in compensation.

Ahmed said the NYSC was yet to receive a court order or document confirming the suit by the Enugu governor-elect and would continue to stand by the “truth”.

Enugu PDP

The party in a statement released on Friday by its state campaign spokesperson, Nana Ogbodo, said the NYSC DG’s claim was “in sync with the agency’s conspiracy, deceit, and wilful misrepresentation of facts”.

It said the DG had during a meeting admitted to being ignorant about the fact that Mbah had received a discharge certificate from the NYSC and did not challenge the authenticity as his claims alleged.

The party also described as an irony, a situation where the DG said he would not want to comment on the matter since it was in court, only to go ahead to not only deny knowledge of the lawsuit and consequent court order, but also to act in clear contempt of the court.

“We should have viewed with surprise the false claim by the NYSC DG, Brigadier-General Yushau’u Dogara Ahmed, on national television this morning. But he has not said anything new, as his statements were in sync with the continued conspiracy, deceit, and wilful misrepresentation of facts by the agency and its Director of Corps Certification, Mr Ibrahim Muhammad, which necessitated Mbah’s N20 billion lawsuit against the agency and Mr Muhammad in the first place,” the statement read.