{"id":102671,"date":"2023-01-22T17:07:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102671"},"modified":"2023-01-22T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:07:21","slug":"abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1755734743355302344\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Gregory Ibe, has denied allegations that he presented a fake secondary school certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), during the submission of credentials to the Commission.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He accused Chief Chikwe Udensi and General Ijioma N. Ijioma of being behind the allegations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Udensi and Ijioma contested the APGA governorship primary election with Ibe who was said to have been declared winner under controversial circumstances.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ijioma had further\u00a0 alleged that the APGA candidate presented another candidate,Joseph Ibe&#8217;s school certificate, as his own.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Describing the allegation as total falsehood,Ibe explained that he successfully completed his secondary school education at Boys High School ,Ihube Okigwe , and obtained the West Africa School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in 1983, which enabled him to proceed for higher education.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He stated that he has no need to forge or present another candidate&#8217;s\u00a0 certificate when his own is genuine and can be confirmed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said;&#8221;I have been told that my opponents Sir Chikwe Udensi and General Ijioma N Ijioma have been spreading false and wicked rumours on radio about me, that I presented another person&#8217;s school certificate to our party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;That is not only mischievously preposterous\u00a0 but also malicious since it is an established fact that I attended the reputable Boys High School Ihube Okigwe, and successfully took the West Africa School Certificate Examination in that same institution in 1983.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Therefore I didn&#8217;t need to forge papers or present another person&#8217;s certificate since I have mine.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He disclosed that the matter was already in court and wondered why Udensi and Ijioma had to resort to media trial and propaganda.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0&#8220;Since I know that this matter is before a court of competent jurisdiction, I have tried not to make public comments on the issue since the case is sub judice but my opponents will not let that happen.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;They have continued to scandalise my name on radio.They were the people who instituted legal proceedings against me in the first place, but when they failed to get what they wanted they now resorted to cheap blackmail, name calling and opprobrium.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He denied knowing one Ibe Joseph who he is alleged to have presented his school certificate to APGA for the party primaries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0&#8220;The fact is that I don&#8217;t know any Joseph Ibe who wrote WASCE in 1992 but I am sure my opponents, who incidentally in their separate lines of business are conversant with the standard protocols of recruitment, established processes of verification and validation of documents, impersonation and the misdemeanor of falsification, will in due course be compelled to clear the air on this heinous scheme to undo an innocent man.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;My name is Gregory Ibe and it is incontrovertible that I sat WASCE\u00a0 in Boys High School Ihube in 1983 with examination number 11510034, and my certificate is still intact.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Gregory Ibe, has denied allegations that he presented a fake secondary school certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC),&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Gregory Ibe, has denied allegations that he presented a fake secondary school certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC),&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-22T16:07:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"442\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"342\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-22T16:07:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/\"},\"wordCount\":487,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/\",\"name\":\"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-22T16:07:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg\",\"width\":442,\"height\":342},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC - Pointblank News","og_description":"Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Gregory Ibe, has denied allegations that he presented a fake secondary school certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC),&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2023-01-22T16:07:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":442,"height":342,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC","datePublished":"2023-01-22T16:07:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/"},"wordCount":487,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/","name":"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg","datePublished":"2023-01-22T16:07:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prof-ibe.jpg","width":442,"height":342},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-2023-apga-gov-candidate-denies-presenting-fake-certificate-to-inec\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Abia 2023: APGA gov candidate denies presenting fake certificate to INEC"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}