Kamaerudeen Ogundele, AbujaThe Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to disqualify the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, from the 2019 governorship election over alleged forged certificate of birth he presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission. The first to third defendants are the Independent National Electoral Commission, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party. The plaintiff, in an affidavit he deposed to, claimed that Wike presented the forged certificate of age to maintain consistency and cover up lies which he started in 1998. It was in order to qualify for that election that the said Certificate of Birth (Statutory Declaration of Age) was forged. “For that election, the second defendant (Wike) for the first time did present the said forged certificate to INEC in his form C.F 001 on November 6, 1998.

Source: Punch February 03, 2019 23:59 UTC