AN Abuja High Court sitting in Apo, Gudu
District, on Friday, dismissed a certificate forgery suit filed by one
Uchenna Nnadi against Senator Andy Uba.
Justice Valentine Ashi
said the law says that he who asserts must prove; and that the
plaintiff had failed to lead the court with further evidence.
Ashi
said that the plaintiff should have investigated and gotten his facts
from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which cleared
the defendant as being eligible for elections.
He said
the plaintiff should have also conducted checks at Union Secondary
School, Awkunawu, Enugu State, where the defendant said he obtained his
School Leaving Certificate as opposed to Boys’ High School, Awkunawu,
which the plaintiff claimed.
The judge dismissed the suit and
said the plaintiff failed to investigate the defendant’s claims and
therefore failed to prove the forgery case against him.
Nnadi
had sued Uba on the grounds that he presented a forged School
certificate from Boys’ High School, Awkunawu, and so unqualified and
ineligible to stand for elections.
Uba, in his counter affidavit,
however, denied ownership of the said certificate and maintained that
he graduated from Union Secondary School, Awkunawu, which he submitted
to INEC and was properly cleared
0 Comments