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The Supreme Court has dismissed the certificate forgery case instituted against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the case was filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its members, Mr. Williams Edobor.
The Supreme Court dismissed the case on the grounds that the party failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.
In a unanimous decision, a five-man penal of justices of the apex court, held that the appellants failed to prove their case against Obaseki.
The apex court said it found no reason to set-aside the concurrent judgements of the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which earlier dismissed the allegation that Obaseki tendered false credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in aid of his qualification for the governorship election that held in Edo state on September 19, 2020.
The Supreme Court, in its lead judgement that was delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, held that the appellants woefully failed to substantiate their forgery allegation against Obaseki.
“The appellants failed woefully to prove their case, they did not provide any disclaimer from the school that the result was not issued by them to Obaseki.
“This court agrees with the lower courts completely, that the appellants did not meet sufficient requirement to prove their case,” the Supreme Court rules.
The apex court went ahead and awarded a cost of N1 million in favour of Governor Obaseki.
Recall that the Court of Appeal had in a judgement it delivered on March 18, held that the case the APC and Edobor brought to vacate the January 9 verdict of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which authenticated Obaseki’s University of Ibadan degree certificate, lacked merit.
The appellate court panel which was led by Justice Stephen Adah, upheld the testimony of the Deputy Registrar, Legal, University of Ibadan, Abayomi Ajayi, who had ealier confirmed before the trial court, that Obaseki attended the University and fulfilled all the requirements for admission into the department of Classical Studies.