APGA alerts INEC on Ekwunife’s Unrecognized certificate, pushes for disqualification of Ekwunife

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‎The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has commenced push for the disqualification of the Deputy Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Anambra State, Senator Uche Ekwunife.
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‎The running mate for Nicholas Ukachukwu for the Anambra Election in November, had tendered a PhD certificate from Atlantic International University, State of Hawaii, in the US to INEC, but APGA insists that a fact-check has revealed that the university is unapproved and can as well be dismissed as a degree mill for people desperate to acquire certificates.
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‎APGA, in a post by its National Publicity Secretary, Ejimofor Opara, insists that for Ekwunife to jump from presenting her degree certificate or even her master’s certificate to present a PhD certificate from an unrecognized institution shows her other certificates may be questionable Mazi ‎Opara said:

“Some of us believe, and wrongly so, that once a university is ‘abroad’ then it is legal and accredited. This erroneous thinking can be permissible amongst certain class of persons in society, not a person in the mould of Uche Ekwunife”
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‎“Hers is willful and deliberate. She wants a PhD but is incapable of the intellectual rigour to earn it. Now, the question before INEC Nigeria as a body set up by law is – should certificates from unapproved and unaccredited schools be accepted for official purposes?”
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“‎If Uche Ekwunife has the minimum qualification for the office she seeks, why submit, under oath, a certificate from a fake university? Does Uche Ekwunife actually possess an authentic first degree? If yes, where is it? Not submitting it raises lots of doubts, knowing it may be fake too”
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‎The party spokesperson said it is important that Uche Ekwunife be used as an example to others brandishing fake higher certificates, as this trend, if unchecked, would make a mess of an already ailing system.