CHRISTIAN ABAH FACES PROSECUTION OVER FORGERY-----Benue Rep-elect.

 Independent National Electoral Commission  have been ordered by a Federal High Court in Abuja to  nullify the Certificate of Return issued to Christian Abah  for the Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo Federal ‎Constituency seat in the House of Representatives‎ at the forthcoming 8th National Assembly. The plaintiff, Mr. Hassan Saleh, leveled a suit against Abah over certificate forgery. Meanwhile, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, delivering judgment in the suit, challenging Abah’s eligibility to stand for the election, held that the allegation of certificate forgery leveled against him has proven to be true. 

Abah was said to have forged an Ordinary National Diploma certificate in Accountancy, purportedly obtained from the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, in 1985.

Justice Ademola said his findings revealed that an earlier judgment of the  National/State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal, ‎sitting in Makurdi, delivered on September 6, 2011, and a letter by the Registrar of the polytechnic, Mr. Suleiman Buba, affirmed that the certificate presented by Abah to INEC was forged. Can this be the beginning of the actual fight on corrupt practices and the perpetrators? Well, the question still remain that the incoming heads of state is a man known to be allergic to corrupt practices, and now remains the actual time to induce the spirit of less corrupt nation into the blood stream of the incoming government. We, Nigerians beg that this Abah's case should not be swept under the carpet, it should serve as a deter rant to other corrupt politicians who may try to engage in such ill-fated character.