A factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Dr Abayomi Arabambi, has alleged that there are some inconsistencies in the academic records submitted to the party by its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during his screening.
Arabambi, who made this revelation during a world press conference held in Abuja on Friday, disclosed that as the party’s spokesman, he was among the people who screened Obi as one of the party’s presidential hopefuls before the election.
According to him, the name written on Obi’s academic certificate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka was different from the name written on the NYSC certificate of the former governor and his WAEC Certificate.
He said “A second look and curious check on Peter Obi’s 1978 School Certificate results posted hurriedly” by Obi’s former aide Mr Oseloka Paul “shows the name Obi Gregory Onwubuasi and not Peter Onwubuasi Obi. ”
He added, “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 he wrote 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.”
Arabambi who made the revelation in response to Obi’s press conference on President Bola Tinubu’s academic record, said, “This destination that he is going to, I don’t know what he wants to achieve.
“We have before the Supreme Court his petition and the pleadings are not there, you are now calling out someone to come and reveal his true identity.
“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.
“We were rushing then 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.”
Displaying several documents submitted by Obi with different names, Arabambi charged the LP presidential candidate to allow peace to reign by avoiding actions and statements capable of causing disaffection in the country.
He however denied being sponsored by the Presidency to oppose Obi, adding that all the Labour Party wants is for Obi to comport himself within the ambit of the law in the prosecution of the petition against Tinubu.
