The Senator representing Anambra South, Andy Uba, is
currently at the centre of a certificate forgery scandal.
This follows allegations that he forged his secondary school
leaving certificate and confirmation of result dated November 13, 2013, which
he presented to British authorities.
Sahara Reporters claims to have obtained a copy of the
letter from the West African Examination Council (WAEC), which was addressed to
George Smith of Public Agencies, located at 57 Peel Road, Wembley Middlesex,
HA9 7LY in the United Kingdom, which confirmed that “Letter reference no.
L/CR/CONF/05465089 dated 21st November, 2013 is fake.”
The said letter from WAEC was dated February 12, 2014.
“Mr. A.A. Okelezo, as you rightly observed, reported as the
Controller of our branch office in Calabar on 7th October, 2013 having been
deployed from the Ikeja Zonal Office.
“He was never the Head of National Office, as indicated at
the foot of the letter under reference. The signature on the document is in no
way similar to his signature,” the letter was quoted as saying.
The letter signed by O.M. Adebayo, Deputy Registrar in
charge of School Exams Department, disclosed that “the Examination conducted in
May/June 1974 was GCE [General Certificate of Education] and not WASSCE as
indicated on the Confirmation of Result.
“The Certificate No: SC 544753 with candidate No. 05465089
was found to be fake, as signatures on the document were forged. Also, the
serial number quoted on the ‘certificate’ was non-existent in our system. In
addition, the spelling of GRADE as GARDE let the document out as fake.”
“Uba’s falsified results claimed that he earned the
following grades: English Literature 4, English Language 7, Christian Religious
Knowledge 7, Economics 4, Statistics 6, Mathematics 6, Physics 4, and Chemistry
6,” Sahara Reporters stated.
The news medium also alleged that Uba’s certificate from
Concordia University, Canada and California State University, U.S. were also
forged as “he dropped out of both institutions without completing enough work
to earn even a bachelor’s degree.”
It added that Buxton University, which Uba said he received
a Ph.D from is “a ‘certificate mill’, that sells degrees to anybody willing to
pay a small fee.”
Andy Uba, who recently defected to the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has not
responded to the allegations.
SaharaReporters, a few weeks ago accused another lawmaker,
Dino Melaye, of certificate forgery. The publisher Omoyele Sowore, vowed to put
his life on the line to expose Melaye.
However, the vice-chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University
(ABU), Ibrahim Garba, later confirmed to the Senate that Melaye graduated from
the school
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