He had allegedly presented the said forged certificates to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the Senate and deputy governorship positions with a genuine one.
The All Progressives Congress yesterday alleged of a subterranean plot by the Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo and the Peoples Democratic Party to swap his alleged forged National Youth Service Corp certificates.
APC in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, disclosed that the party had already obtained the certified true copies of the allegedly forged NYSC certificates in anticipation of the act. But in a swift reaction, Ewhrudjakpo described allegations that he forged his NYSC and exemption certificates as baseless.
Speaking through his counsel, Clement Bibisa Kekemeka in Abuja, the Deputy Governor, however, admitted to an error in his NYSC Exemption Certificate but quickly laid the blame on the corps authority, who he said, misspelt his surname.
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