Hon Saleh Hassan Ask Court To Stop PDP From Presenting Chris Abah To Inec Over Certificate Forgery.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to stop the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from presenting one Christian Abah as its candidate for election into the House of Representatives for the Ado, Okpokwu and Ogbadibo federal constituency of Benue State.

The plaintiff in the suit, Hassan Saleh, through his counsel, Emeribe Mathias, alleged that Abah forged the National Diploma (ND) certificate he submitted to the PDP upon which he was cleared to participate in the primaries to select the party’s candidate for election.

Abah won the highest votes at the party’s primaries held on December 6, 2014 to select PDP’s candidate for election into the constituency. However, Saleh, who came second in the primaries, is alleging that the certificate presented by Abah was a forgery.

Saleh is asking the court to declare that the National Diploma certificate in Accountancy purportedly obtained in August, 1986 by Abah from the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi in Adamawa State, which was presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was forged.

He also asked the court to hold that Abah was not qualified to present himself for the primaries of the PDP by virtue of the fact that the document he presented to INEC was forged. The plaintiff asked the court to declare that the clearance given to Abah by PDP was null and void and of no effect in as much as it failed to comply with the party’s electoral guidelines and the 1999 Constitution as amended.

Source New Telegraph.