Nicholas Ulachukwu, APC guber candidate and Ekwunife
By Amah
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The Deputy Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Anambra State, Senator Uche Ekwunife, may be disqualified from the race if the
All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has its way.
The party had accused Ekwunife of submitting a PhD certificate, which it insists insists was obtained from an allegedly unrecognised Atlantic International University, State of Hawaii, in the US, to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
APGA claimed that the university is and could be a degree mill for people desperate to acquire certificates.
Ejimofor Opara, APGA’s National Publicity Secretary, that the presentation of the PhD certificate from an unapproved also casts a pall of suspicion on her other certificates.
“Some of us believe, and wrongly so, that once a university is ‘abroad’ then it is legal and accredited. This erroneous thinking can be permissible amongst certain class of persons in society, not a person in the mould of Uche Ekwunife,” Opara’s post read.
“Hers is willful and deliberate. She wants a PhD but is incapable of the intellectual rigour to earn it.
“Now, the question before INEC Nigeria as a body set up by law is – should certificates from unapproved and unaccredited schools be accepted for official purposes?
“If Uche Ekwunife has the minimum qualification for the office she seeks, why submit, under oath, a certificate from a fake university? Does Uche Ekwunife actually possess an authentic first degree? If yes, where is it? Not submitting it raises lots of doubts, knowing it may be fake too.”
The party said it is important that Uche Ekwunife be used as an example to others brandishing fake higher certificates, as this trend, if unchecked, would make a mess of an already ailing system.
