The National Seceretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party has petitioned the West Africa Examination Council’s headquaters over the controversy surrounding the results tendered by the witness of the examination body during the last tribunal sitting.
In the three-paged letter addressed to the registrar of the body, Dr. Uyi Uwadiae, the party maintained that the result tendered are “false and fraudulent.”
The letter reads, “This was most curious for two reasons. Firstly, our lawyers have always understood that the florin Branch Controller, Mr Waheed Bamidele Amode, was the person designated to represent WAEC at the Tribunal, Indeed. Mi Amode said so on oath at the first adjourned hearing of 13 June 2019. There was also a letter from WAEC dated 5 July 2019 copy attached) designating Mr Amode. Secondly, it is most abnormal that such a junior officer who is not from either the Administration Department of the Records Department would be sent to give evidence on a matter of record to a Tribunal”
It continues, “Indeed, we began to smell a rat when the said letter stated that Mr Amode would be unavailable until the “fourth week of July because he was marking exam papers outside Kwara State. We know for a fact that WAEC had not commenced marking exams as at 9 July and that, in any event, the Branch Controller would not be engaged in marking exam papers himself”
They further explained, “We also note that the said letter was signed by one Mrs N.G.O Otoborkeyan claiming to be Acting Head of Legal Department when in fact there was a subsisting substantive Head of Legal Department at the time. He was neither retired, dismissed nor on holiday. Despite this assertion, Mr Amode appeared at the Tribunal premises on 9 July contrary to the false claim by Mrs Otoborkeyan that he was outside the State marking exam papers. Unfortunately, the Tribunal could not sit on that date due to the Judges having to
attend to an official matter in Abuja.”
Among the concern raised by the party is that the abbreviation of a candidate’s middle and last name is not tenable which, they said, consequently alluded that the certificate is fake. The governor’s name was written as Abdulrasaq A.R. instead of AbdulRahman Abdulrasaq.
The biggest opposition party in the country further requested the examination body to respond to the letter writing seven days or face litigation.