The  Jos North Local Government Council Education Secretary,Mr Ajiji Azi  ,Primary Education Board Coordinator ,Gambo Adamu and the head Master Lawal ibn Suleiman all were subpoena to appeared before National Assembly Election Tribunal have  disowned the originality of primary school certificate result attached by Adamu Muhammad Alkali to INEC EC8A .


The All Progressives Congress ,(APC) candidate for Jos North /Bassa Federal Constituency ,Former Deputy Speaker ,Rt.Hon. Ibrahim Baba-Hassan approached the National ,State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal challenging People Redemption Party,(PRP) candidate ,Hon Adamu Muhammad Alkali ,alias Goni of engaging in primary School certificate forgery scandal .

The petitioners Counsel ,Mr Ishaq Magaji ,SAN , told the court that the petition was slated for the commencement of hearing and he scheduled to tender from the Bar CTC which the petitioners pleaded the documents .

However the pleaded documents were admitted in evidence and marked B1-B10 as he subpoena three witnesses from the DSS ,NPF ,Education department .

According to him ,the form 23 rule 3 tendering of documents under section 218 of the electoral act in accordance with the federal high court .

However ,the Commissioner of Police ,Plateau State Command ,CP .B Onyeka but represented by Muleng Alex the OC attached to legal department of serial No .17891709 with subpoena dated 13/06/2023 .and the petitioners applied to tender in evidence before the court and was marked as exhibit and admitted in evidence .

The documents was objected by the 4th-5th respondent the admissibility of the documents which was reserve for final judgment ,and the report was CTC police interim investigation reports completed by DSP Adamu S.Usman was admitted in evidence and marked as exhibit B8 .

The PW2 was the Mr Ajiji Azi the Education secretary of Jos North LGA on the same subpoena that was served on 11/06/2023 B13 exhibit dated 15/06/2023 depose on statement on oaths and identified by him through the signature.

The witness was warned by the 1st respondent ,INEC ,of the implication of of telling lies as a witness statement on paragraph 8 were the respondent ,Adamu Muhammad Alkali claimed to present a primary school certificate result of Angwan Rogo were alleged that he took position 12th out of 75 pupils that graduated in 1990 set  .

In his statement  page 11 revealed that total of 275 pupils graduated but counsel to Hon Musa Avia Agah ,Pius Akubo ,SAN, on cross examination ,Ajiji Azi confirmed to the court that the Angwan Rogo is a public school within Jos North ,he said yes . Azi told the court that the Angwan Rogo is under the supervision authority of them .

He disagreed with the total number of pupils that graduated in 1990 in his paragraph 8 after due comparing to the names of graduands in 1990 so what he has in his record is Muhammad Adamu 1990 and the documents shows 275 that graduated with Adamu Muhammad as No 93 and 247 with different positions each .

Azi explained further to the court that the Angwan Rogo primary school certificate attached by Adamu Muhammad Alkali was forged that the use for the contest of Jos North, Bassa seat and he confirmed to court all the statements of the witness on certificate racketeering is true .

As education secretary of Jos north ,I have authentic list of the 1990 pupils which was tender in evidence .

PW3 ,Gambo Adamu who is a staff of primary education board Jos North education department was subpoena evidence was tender and marked exhibit B15  dated 15/06/2023 on oaths .

He stressed that then he was the head Master of Angwan Rogo primary school in 2006 when the purported certificate racketeering was issued to Adamu Muhammad Alkali but he is not aware that the said graduand was given the  certificate .

Gambo confirmed to the court that the signature that appeared on the certificate given to Adamu Muhammad Alkali was fake and forged .

The three witnesses confirmed to the court that Adamu Muhammad Alkali was not a graduate of the set 90s of the Angwan Rogo primary school and the documents he presented to INEC shows he forged it .

From the tribunal the documents tender by the 4th-5th respondents didn't tally with fact on ground but he succeeded in misleading the INEC to produced documents that the school disowned the originality of the Angwan Rogo primary school certificate .