APC accuses Gbadamosi of forging WASSCE result as bye-election draw near

The People's Democratic Party's representative for the upcoming Lagos East Senatorial District bye-election, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi has been accused by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of forged West African Senior School Certificate Examination results.

The party further called on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to bar him from contesting the elections.

The Punch reports that the defendants in the suit are Gbadamosi and the Independent National Electoral Commission.

In the suit filed by its lawyer, Mr Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), the APC claimed that its check on WASSCE website showed that Gbadamosi, in 1985, registered and sat for eight WASSCE subjects, but the certificate he submitted to INEC indicated that he only registered for and took five subjects, The Punch said.

“The number of subjects recorded for the 1st defendant on the platform of WASSCE materially differs from the number of subjects recorded for the 1st defendant on the purported WASSCE Certificate submitted to the 2nd defendant.

“The certificate was forged and or falsified to conceal the fact that the 1st defendant sat for and failed Mathematics, Economics and Bible Knowledge,” the APC said in its statement of claim.

The PDP and Gbadamosi had earlier, through a suit by their lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), sought the disqualification of the APC candidate, Mr Tokunbo Abiru, over alleged possession of two voter cards.