President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Prosecution and Chairman, Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Property, Okoi Obono-Obla is now swimming in WAEC certificate scandal.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Registrar, represented by the Deputy Registrar, Mr Femi Ola testifying before the House of Representatives ad hoc Panel investigating Mr Obono-Obla’s alleged forgery said; “Considering the results, particularly on what is before me, I would say what I have brought here is the authentic and genuine one; his is not because it has been altered and such alteration renders it invalid.”

“From our record, the genuine candidate is Ofem Okoi Ofem, 09403/247 of Mary Knoll College, Ogoja. The exam number and number of subjects are the same. The difference is the grade in English literature in which he claimed to have scored C6 despite being marked absent in the true, certified copy. Obono-Obla’s WAEC results is fake not genuine.”

The Chairman of the Reps Investigative Panel, Mr Aliyu Pategi lauded WAEC for striving to maintain its “integrity and probity.” The Chairman added that the implication was that Obono-Obla gained admission to the University of Jos with a fake WAEC result.