A-Court declines to sack Ogun Gov-elect, Abiodun over educational qualification vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Abiodun who won the March 9 governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was accused of lying on oath about his qualifications in the Form CF001 he used to secure clearance from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The Plaintiff alleged that the governor-elect who had earlier claimed to possess two University degrees, did not undertake the one year compulsory National Youth Service Scheme. It was alleged that the 2nd defendant , in a fresh affidavit he deposed for the purpose of the 2019 governorship election, declared only the West African School Certificate he obtained in 1978, as his only qualification in the Form CF001 he submitted to INEC on October 23, 2018.
However, the high court, in a judgment by Justice Kayode Adeniyi, dismissed the on technicalities, stressing that it was caught by section 285 in the 4th Alteration of the 1999 Constitution, which allowed 14 days for filing of pre-election matters.
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