Categories: Crime Watch

Court Adjourns Ex-Reps Member ‘Certificate Forgery’ Suit

 

Justice Bello Kawu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja, has adjourned to June 28, a suit instituted by a former member of the House of Representatives, Rita Odichi, asking the court to restrain the police from investigating her on alleged possession of a fake WAEC result used to contest the 2015 and 2023 elections.

Odichi contested the seat of Ajeromi-Ifelodun Federal Constituency in 2015 on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and also contested same office in the 2023 election, allegedly with a fake WAEC result.

Odichi was in the green chamber from 2015 to 2019.

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The police had invited her for interrogation but she turned down the invitation and rather approached a court to enforce a restraining order and fundamental human rights.

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