The Labour Party’s Lamidi Apapa-led faction has claimed that there are some anomalies in the academic qualifications of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The assertion was made by the LP faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi, during an interview on AIT News on Thursday.
The development follows the issue surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University diploma.
Obi dragged Tinubu at a news conference on Wednesday, challenging the former Lagos governor to expose his genuine identity to Nigerians.
However, Arabambi stated on live television that it would be wrong for the LP candidate to target Tinubu when he also has academic qualifications disparities.
While revealing that he was part of the panel that vetted Obi prior to the party’s presidential primary, the factional spokesman said that the name on Obi’s academic degree from the University of Nigeria in Nsukka contradicts the name on his National Youth Service Corps certificate.
He said: “I was part of the people who did the screening for him. In the form EC9 we gave him, he wrote that he attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and that he finished his youth service. But unfortunately, in the final submission of the form, he only submitted his school certificate.
“So, something is fishy, and I want to say the name the school sent for mobilisation was not what was written on his NYSC certificate, and he knows that. For us, we don’t know the true identity of Peter Obi even in the Labour Party because everything was shrouded in secrecy at that time in Asaba.
“You know we were rushing because we had just a day to do our presidential primary, and that was why he was able to get away with it. But we have it on record that Obi’s name on his NYSC certificate and the one on his university of Nigeria, Nsukka, certificate are different.”
However, Obiora Ifoh, the National Publicity Secretary of the, disputed the accusation.
While identifying Arabambi as one of the party’s renegades, Ifoh told Newsmen that his predecessor was out to destabilise the party by performing the bidding of his supposed paymasters.
“Arabambi should try something else. Our candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, is a known figure whose parentage, birth, schools attended and record of public service, has never been in dispute.
“As he said publicly yesterday (Wednesday), some of his mates at the University of Nigeria Nsukka are alive. In fact, they are holding high office in the management team of the university today. This can be verified. His certificates are in the public domain and can be scrutinised by any interested Nigerian.
“Arabambi, is obviously doing the bidding of his paymasters who are desperate to destroy our party. We challenge Arabambi’s principal to do the same and save our nation further embarrassment,” Ifoh said.
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