Drama, intrigues as senators query Tinubu’s nominee who submitted 2 credits credential

…ask brilliant Sen. Abbo who passed common entrance in pry 3 to secondary sch to take a bow

The Nigerian Senate will continue to amaze Nigerians in the next four years as displayed in the screening of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial nominees on Monday.

TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports it was an eye opener as Bello Mohammed Goronyo from Sokoto State could not defend how he gained a varsity admission with just two credits and even became a lawyer.

Goronyo, who was the 6th nominee to be screened, said he bagged a law degree from the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and was called to the Nigerian bar in 2001.

However, Senator Allwell Onyesoh (Rivers East) drew the attention of the house to the irregularities in Goronyo’s certificates.

“I have taken time to go through your resume, I would like you to go back to your academic qualifications, I’ve been looking for your school certificate, I saw that you sat for 5 subjects and got only 2 passes, I don’t know how, but I want to imagine that you still have another one to bring, if not, I would want you to explain how you got into University with that?” Alwell asked.

Responding, Goronyo dismissed the question on the basis that a school certificate was enough to win any elective position in the country, hence there was no need to go into how he got admission to the University.

“I have other secondary results, which I have passed and not attached to my CV. I want to remind the distinguished senator that with SSCE qualification you can stand for an election up to the presidency, so I didn’t bother you with much certificates but I know I have the qualification for that.

Responding, Senate President Godswill Akpabio said “you are telling us that you chose the qualifications to bring to the senate because of the constitution that secondary school certificate is what is required to stand for election? You are not coming to stand for election, you are coming to become minister, so which are the other certificates you concealed and did not put in your CV?”.

A shaky and disoriented Goronyo responded, “the secondary school certificate is there and other certificates of other qualifications…what I’m trying to say is that I have sat for another examination and I have passed, but I don’t want to attach qualifications because…”

Another almost impossible unfolded as Senator Senator Ishaku Abbo, representing APC-Adamawa North, made a claim during the nominee’s screening .

He said he had taken the National Common Entrance Examination when he was in Primary Three and described himself as exceptionally brilliant, which amused his colleagues.

He was so brilliant that at probably age seven passed national common entrance and his colleagues laughed and asked him to take a bow.

Abbo’s comment came after fellow lawmaker Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru from Lagos East raised a question about the biodata of the ministerial nominee, Prof. Joseph Utsev from Benue State. The birth year of the professor was indicated as 1980, while his primary education was supposedly completed in 1989.

In response, Utsev clarified that he was admitted to primary school in 1984 and obtained his first school leaving certificate in 1989.

During the discussion, Senator Abbo suggested that it was possible for the nominee to have started primary school at the age of three and humorously compared it to his own experience of being exceptionally brilliant. He praised Utsev’s achievements as a professor and assured him that his integrity was not being questioned.

Two many questions begging for answers as some of these developments are strange where democracy wears a true face in transparency in legislative business.