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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig Gen Yusha’u Ahmed, has said the discharge certificate being paraded by Enugu State Governor-elect, Peter Mbah, is fake.
Ahmed stated this while speaking on Arise TV’s breakfast programme, ‘Morning Show,’ on Friday.
Mbah, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was declared winner of the March 18 governorship election in Enugu State.
The governor-elect had recently filed a case against the NYSC, demanding N20 billion for injuries he claimed to have been inflicted on his person due to the controversy surrounding his discharge certificate.
The controversy over his certificate hit the headlines in February 2023, when the NYSC, in response to an inquiry by a non-governmental organisation, released a letter stating that the certificate submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by Mbah was not issued by them.
Speaking on the certificate saga on Friday, the NYSC DG said: “He came to me and I called my director to confirm the certificate and we discovered that the certificate was fake and I told him…I wonder how elites who have gone to school will resort to black market certificates.
“Everyone knows how we issue our certificate in NYSC we don’t give it in hotel rooms or houses.”