Abayomi Arabambi, the National Publicity Secretary of the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP), has raised concerns about a discrepancy in the certificates of the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Arabambi made these allegations during an interview on AIT on Thursday.
The factional Labour Party’s National Publicity Secretary’s comments follow a press conference by Peter Obi regarding the controversy surrounding Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University certificate.
Arabambi revealed that he was part of the team that screened Obi before the party’s presidential primary. He noted that the name on Obi’s academic certificate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), differs from the name on his National Youth Service Corps certificate.
Arabambi 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 mobilization 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 between him and Abure 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,” he said.
