The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has issued a fresh certificate to the governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki.
In a letter dated June 19, 2020 and signed by Okonofua K .N on behalf of the NYSC director general, the service wrote: “I refer to your letter referenced EOG/ABI/99/VOL IV/172 dated 18th June, 2020, on the above subject matter please.
“I am directed to inform you that after investigation, the management of the National Youth Service Corps has approved that a new Certificate of National Service reflecting the Surname OBASEKI be produced as the earlier Certificate number 063107 dated 6th August, 1980 has been cancelled due to error in the surname i.e. OBASEK.
“Accept the assurances of the director general’s regard.”
It would be recalled that Obaseki who won the 2016 Edo State governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was disqualified from participating in the party’s governorship primary election in the state in 2020 as a result of inconsistency noticed in his submitted credentials to the APC’s screening panel.
The panel faulted Obaseki’s NYSC certificate where his surname ‘Obaseki’ was written as ‘Obasek’ and that of his Higher School Leaving Certificate (HSC) he claimed to have obtained from an Institute of Continuing Education in Benin.
This led to his exit from APC to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he became the party’s candidate for the October 19, 2020 governorship election in the state.
Obaseki will slug it out with Mr. Osazie Ize-Iyamu of the APC who contested against him in 2016 on the platform of the PDP.
