By A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa has disqualified the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Bayelsa West senatorial bye-election, Mr Peremobowei Ebebi over alleged certificate forgery.
The presiding judge, Justice Jane Inyang,delivered the judgment on the case filed against Ebebi by Mr Richman Samuel, a former director of Domestic Matters, Government House, Yenagoa.
Ebebi, who is a former deputy governor, emerged the APC senatorial candidate for Bayelsa West in a direct mode of primary election conducted in September by the party’s primary electoral committee headed by General Abdulsalam Dahiru (retd.).
Richman, however contended that the academic credentials and voter card which the defendant submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the bye-election were forged documents.
Justice Inyang, in her ruling, upheld the plaintiff’s argument and declared the APC candidate ineligible to contest the bye-election.
She held that the voter card which the Ekeremor-born politician submitted to INEC “as declared by his (Ebebi’s) father, bears a different age and, therefore, contradicts other of his documents and his filed INEC forms.”
