The Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party, LP, has alleged some discrepancies in the academic certificates of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, News About Nigeria reports.
This was disclosed by the spokesman for the LP faction, Abayomi Arabambi, in an interview on AIT News on Thursday.
They said this in response to Peter Obi’s released certificates and Obi’s Press Conference on Wednesday where he said that people can go and verify the authenticity of his certificates.
Arabambi, who revealed that he was among the panel who screened Obi before the party’s presidential primary, alleged that the name on the academic certificate Obi bagged from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, contradicts the name on that of his National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.
He said: “I was part of the people who did the screening for him. In the form EC9 we gave him, he wrote that he attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and that he finished his youth service. But unfortunately, in the final submission of the form, he only submitted his school certificate.
“So, something is fishy, and I want to say the name the school sent for mobilisation was not what was written on his NYSC certificate, and he knows that. For us, we don’t know the true identity of Peter Obi even in the Labour Party because everything was shrouded in secrecy at that time in Asaba.”
He further stated that Obi was able to get away with it because they were in a hurry to conduct the party’s presidential primary.
However, the National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, denied the allegation, noting that Arabambi was out to cause chaos in the party by doing the bidding of his paymasters.
He also charged Arabambi to try something else as Peter Obi is a known figure whose parentage, birth, schools attended and record of public service have never been in dispute.
