Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state lied when he claimed in public that there was no problem with his certificate.

A report by Pulse has revealed that after the claim, the governor went in secret to correct the error.

In a report by the news medium, it discovered from documents made public by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, was dishonest about a certificate issue that contributed to his exit from the All Progressives’ Congress (APC).

Recall that the 63-year-old exited the APC on June 16, 2020, and joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) days later after the party’s screening committee disqualified him from contesting in its primary election which would have given him the ticket to contest for a second term in office.

When Jonathan Ayuba presented the committee’s report to the party’s now-disbanded National Working Committee (NWC) on June 12, he said Obaseki was not cleared because of inconsistencies in his higher school certificate and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate.

He said the seven-member committee observed that the governor’s NYSC certificate bears the name ‘Obasek’ without the final letter ‘i’.

“While this may be an error on the part of the issuing authority, we observed that the aspirant has not taken any step whatsoever to have the anomaly corrected by the issuing authority,” the committee chairperson said.

Despite the committee’s claim, the disqualification decision was believed to have been influenced by Adams Oshiomhole, Obaseki’s predecessor and political ally turned adversary, who was the APC national chairman until last month.