SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, (THEWILL) – An Abuja-based private investigator, Victor Uwajeh, has accused Andy Uba, a senator representing Anambra south, of forging his O-level certificate from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
Uwajeh, speaking with journalists on Wednesday, claimed to be former lawyer to Uba and added that Uba owes him legal fees to the tune of £1.9 million.
He said he took Uba to court in 2016 when he refused to pay his legal fees explaining that he met Uba in 2012 when he had problems with the UK authorities, hence he was contracted to lift a ban preventing him from entering the country.
“Sometime in 2012, I met with senator Andy Uba who briefed me that he had issues with the UK authorities because he was banned in 2008 from entering the United Kingdom and being a British citizen and a private investigator, he wanted me to lift the exclusion ban on him from entering the UK,” he said.
“And he made available to me some documents, this is one of the first document in her majesty’s court seeking for judicial relief to enable him enter the UK. He also made them available to me the grounds for seeking relief to the home Secretary who is now Prime Minister Theresa May to lift the ban taken against him.
“In 2012, I met with Andy Uba at his Asokoro residence where he gave me the power of attorney duly signed by him, both of us appended our signatures and it has his picture, I have his originals copy kept.
“It was authorizing me to work on his behalf and he was going to return the expenses back to me so that I will assist him in lifting the ban on him.
“He also had an arrest warrant against him in the state of Los Angeles, he also gave me a power attorney in 2015 signed by himself, Senator Andy Uba, to lift the arrest warrant against him.
“After everything I sought for my professional fees and sent it to him, it kept lingering, he refused to pay so at the end of the day I filed a court process against him, seeking for payment of my professional fees.
“We started from 2016, we have been in court since 2016, so I don’t see the reason he is alluding to blackmail because we are in court, he was served through the clerk of the national assembly. I don’t understand how a case in court is blackmail. The amount in question is £1.9 million which is in the court process.
“He presented a lot of documents to be presented to the UK authorities, some forged WAEC certificate and others which were part of the documents filed in court.
“WAEC confirmed that the certificate Nnamdi Uba is parading is a fake document and I expect the authorities to look into this vehemently because forgery in the national assembly is alarming and I feel the media is crucial to straightening issues in Nigeria.”
At the news conference, Uwajeh presented the alleged forged certificate to journalists as evidence of his allegation.
One certificate shows that Uba finished secondary school at Boys High School, Awkunawaw, Enugu in 1974, the other one, a statement of result which the lawmaker submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as his original credential, shows that he graduated from Union Secondary School, Awkunanaw, Enugu state in 1974.
