2027: Enugu ADC guber candidate, Ocho resurrects Gov Mbah's NYSC certificate controversy

The governorship campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, successful Enugu State, Chief Obodoeze Chukwuma Ocho, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, demanding an probe into Governor Peter Mbah’s National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, discharge certificate.

Ocho wrote the missive done his solicitor, Ejikeme Ignatius Ugwu of Ejike Ugwu & Associates.

He is urging the constabulary main to bid a discreet probe into the authenticity of the NYSC certificate submitted by Mbah to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, successful 2022.

In the petition dated October 20, 2026, the lawyer alleged that the politician submitted a National Service certificate bearing fig LA/FRN/01/808297 to INEC.

According to the petition, Omas & Partners had, successful a missive dated November 23, 2022, approached the Director-General of NYSC nether the Freedom of Information Act, seeking clarification connected the authenticity and ineligible presumption of the certificate.

The petition stated that the NYSC, successful its effect dated February 1, 2023, and signed by Ibrahim A. Muhammad, confirmed that the certificate was not issued by the corps.

It further stated that the past Director-General of NYSC reiterated the organisation’s presumption during an interrogation with Arise Television, maintaining that the certificate allegedly presented by Mbah did not emanate from the corps.

Ocho, done his lawyer, argued that though th...