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Federal High Court in Abuja has been urged to sack Senator Suleiman
Asonya Adokwe, representing Nasarawa South Senatorial District, for
allegedly presenting other people’s certificates to the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) for election.
Adokwe assumed office in December 2015 having successfully challenged
the election of Architect Salihu Hussaini Egyegbola in court.
Egyegbola of the All progressives Congress (APC) was declared winner
of the senatorial election by INEC, a decision Adokwe contested at the
election tribunal.
He lost at the tribunal, but succeeded at the Court of Appeal, which
in a December 10, 2015 judgment voided Egyegbola’s election and ordered
INEC to return Adokwe as winner of the election for the Nasarawa South
Senatorial District.
The plaintiff, Mohammed Abubakar Ozegya, in the suit he filed
through his lawyer, Mathew Burkaa, before the Federal High Court, Abuja,
stated, in a supporting affidavit, that upon Adokwe’s assumption of
office, he discovered from the Form CF001 he (Adokwe) submitted to INEC,
that the Senator presented certificates bearing other people’s names.
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