Senator Ifeanyi Ubah who has been facing a legal battle over his senatorial seat, has expressed joy following the National Examination Council’s (NECO) confirmation of his results. The Senator has been sacked twice by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over alleged certificate forgery.
However, a Federal High Court in Abuja, recently asked parties in the matter to maintain status quo pending the determination of a motion filed before the court by Ifeanyi Ubah.
With his case still court, the National Examination Council (NECO) has confirmed that Senator Ubah who is also a member of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), passed seven out of the eight subjects he sat for in 2003. The senator’s result confirmation was contained in a letter written by the Head of Department of Legal and Board Affairs at NECO, Comfort Kolo, addressed to the National Secretary of an YPP, Vidiyeno Bamaiyi.
According to NECO, YPP had written to its body requesting for Ifeanyi Ubah’s details and result. The letter NECO sent to YPP in response to its request has its reference number as NECO/R/LGS/V. 20/006, and dated January 23, 2020. The Examination body said that the senator was in June 2003 given a statement of results that contained the subjects he passed and the grades.
Below are the results:
- English Language (C6),
- Mathematics (C6),
- Government (C6),
- Economics (C5),
- Literature in English (C5),
- Commerce (C5) and
- Christian Religious Studies (C6).
The body said that biology was excluded from the statement of result because the senator got an F. Ifeanyi Ubah has expressed his contentment saying, “I am happy that NECO has cleared my name and vindicated my innocence of the charges against me at the FCT High Court,” he said.
