Order Oduah to Produce Her NYSC Certificate, Groups Urges PDP
The Concerned Anambra North Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Stakeholders has asked the National Chairman of the party to order a former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah to produce her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate or be disqualified from participating in the party’s primary for Anambra North Senatorial election.
The group, in a petition to the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, said Oduah should be disqualified for presenting doubtful documents and credentials all of which they said were in the custody of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) and the public domain.
They attached to the petition INEC Form C.F. 001 in where Oduah claimed she had lost her NYSC certificate. It was on the basis of this claim that she was elected into the Senate
The stakeholders said these documents and credentials having now been subjected to verification were found to be doubtful or non-existence.
In 2014, Oduah deposed to an affidavit and obtained a police extract (both documents attached to the petition) where she stated that she obtained a First School Leaving Certificate from St John Odoakpu, Onitsha.
“However, upon an enquiry to the Ministry of Basic Education, Anambra State in 2019, it was discovered from their response that Senator Oduah was never among the pupils that sat for FSLC in 1973 in the Old East Central State of which the present Anambra State was part of. Thus, her claims of obtaining FSLC in 1973 are false and misleading”, the stakeholders said. They attached a Certified True Copy of list of pupils who sat for the exams in 1973.
In the same affidavit and police extract submitted to INEC by Oduah, she also claimed to have participated in the National Youth Service NYSC scheme in 1983 and that she lost the discharge certificate issued to her by the NYSC.
However, instead of applying to the NYSC headquarters for a letter of confirmation indicating her NYSC number and the year she did the service, she submitted a letter from Nigeria Employers Consultative Association purportedly confirming that she participated in NYSC.