Biobarakuma
Degi-Eremienyo, sacked All Progressives Congress deputy governor-elect in
Bayelsa state, says he did not forge any of the certificates he presented to
the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Degi-Eremienyo said
this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday.
The supreme court
had sacked David Lyon, the governor-elect, on the grounds that Degi-Eriemienyo
presented forged credentials to INEC.
Degi-Eremienyo said
he needed to clear his name because the court’s decision has left him
“traumatised” and open to “assault”.
He said all his
certificates are in public, and that they can easily be verified.
“The aim of this
press conference is to defend my reputation which the justices of the supreme
court, whether consciously or unconsciously, subjected to scurrilous scandal,
assault and unfair imputation,” he said.
“Let me state that
some of my primary school teachers are still alive: Chief Eredogiyo Watson,
Chief Allen Obebe-Orukari and Susan Otiotio.
“Let me also state
in clear and graphic terms that I attended two secondary schools.
“First, Nyemoni
Grammar School, Abonnema, Rivers state where some of my classmates were
Harrison Braide, Tombo Douglas, Ferdinand Amabebe: Professor Owunari George
Will, Justice Biobele Georgewill, Chief David Briggs and Alpheus Otta and some
of my teachers were Mr Wamarte and Mrs Humbly, Mr Frank etc.
“All my academic
certificates are in the public domain. Whether they are genuine or forged are
verifiable matters.
“If these
certificates exist and have not been altered in any manner, it would mean they
are genuine. The next enquiry would then be if the names appearing thereon
belong to me or belong to some other persons.
“If no other persons
can be found who claim the names in the certificates then they are mine.”
He said the apex
court could ask law enforcement agencies to investigate the matter so as to
have his name cleared of the allegation.
“Judges including
justices of the supreme court are free to request law enforcement agencies to
investigate persons who appear before them as to the commission or otherwise of
crimes,” he said.
“All the educational
qualifications I presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission to
aid my constitutional qualification were acquired by me personally from
institutions here in Nigeria which are still in existence till date. The
records are verifiable anytime and any day here in Nigeria.”
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