Human Global Resource Initiative, Human Rights Monitoring Agenda and others, are pulling Governor Adedapo Oluseun Abiodun of Ogun State into scandal of false education qualification allegation.
The groups strengthened their agitation with legal action.
Human Global Resource Initiative, Human Rights Monitoring Agenda and others, in a suit against Governor Adedapo Oluseun Abiodun, raised allegation of "discrepancies in his educational qualifications submitted ahead of the 2014, 2019 and 2023 general elections".
In the originating summons, the applicants are asking the court to determine whether the declaration on oath made by Governor Abiodun on December 15, 2014, stating that he attended the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, in 1986 and Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in 1989, as submitted to INEC, was truthful.
The plaintiffs also want the court to determine whether discrepancies in the governor’s stated primary school education amount to false declaration under the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
They also raised questions regarding his participation in the compulsory National Youth Service Corps, NYSC scheme. They argued that having declared he graduated in 1986 at the age of 26, he ought to have participated in the programme.
In addition, the applicants alleged that the governor failed to disclose an alleged indictment and imprisonment in 1986, as referenced in an exhibit attached to the suit, in his INEC Forms submitted in 2014, 2018 and 2022.
The plaintiffs are seeking declarations that Governor Abiodun is constitutionally disqualified from contesting elections into any public office in Nigeria.
They are also asking for orders restraining INEC and political parties from nominating, accepting or recognising him as a candidate for any elective office.
As of the time of filing this report, there was no official response from Governor Abiodun or the other respondents named in the suit.
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