The All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State, has dragged the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the December 5 senatorial bye-election in Lagos East, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi before a Federal High Court, Ikoyi for alleged perjury and falsification of certificates.
Counsel to Lagos APC, Mr. Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, filed the suit at the court, asking it to disqualify Gbadamosi from contesting the bye-election.
The APC filed the suit against the PDP candidate and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, supported with documents to prove its case.
In the Suit NO: FHC/L/CS/1659/2020, the APC averred that it studied the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, certificate, which Gbadamosi submitted to the INEC in comparison with his certificate obtained from the official website of WAEC.
The party, in its writs of summons, claimed that it discovered certain discrepancies in the certificates, which according to the APC, were indicative of the fact that the WAEC certificate Gbadamosi submitted to the INEC might have been falsified.
It claimed that some of the discrepancies observed in Gbadamosi’s WAEC certificate include the number of subjects the PDP candidate allegedly sat for “is different from the number of subjects he sat for as contained on the website of WAEC.
Olaoluwa Adekunle
