It is not in doubt that right from the time, Barr. Peter Mbah declared his intention to run for Enugu State governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), desperate characters like Barr. Chijioke Edeoga, who was his co-aspirant in PDP before losing and defecting to Labour Party, was determined to tarnish his hard-earned reputation with all kinds of fabricated, smear and damning allegations and falsehoods.
Edeoga was bent on compromising and circumventing institutions, agencies, rules and laws to get at Mbah by all means. It would be recalled that Edeoga was behind the false publication before the party primaries and elections that Mbah is an ex-convict.
In order to make such allegation look genuine, Edeoga and his cohorts forged a document in that regard which they used to compromise and hoodwink a staff of the Federal Ministry of Justice, who went further to delude the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Alhaji Abubakar Malami (SAN) with it and made him to err in law.
It took Malami months of painstaking investigation to realise that he was deceived with fake documents by his Ministry's compromised staff to deride Mbah.
That was why and how Malami came down from his Olympian height and exalted office to write a public apology letter to Mbah through his counsel, acknowledging culpability and complicity in the fictitious ex- convict allegation documents against Mbah, which Edeoga never further pursued in any court or filed at the tribunal as expected of him.
Has anybody asked why Edeoga and his social media e-rats are not pushing the false narrative that Mbah is an ex convict again for sometimes now? It is simply because they don't want their shady deal with the compromised staff of Federal Ministry of Justice to be exposed. Despite being clever by half, their deal and criminal act with the Justice Ministry's staff were recently exposed with the apology letter from the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami to Mbah in that regard, exonerating Mbah of any ex-convict tag or encumbrance.
Coming to the open again is the conspiracy between Barr. Edeoga and his APC counterpart in Enugu State, Chief Uche Nnaji and some corrupt officials of National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) to denigrate Mbah with the false claim that he has a forged NYSC certificate without clearly explaining how or evidence to that effect.
So worrisome about it is the fact that as has been repeatedly explained and clarified by Mbah, he participated fully in the one year programme and was issued with a discharge certificate by the NYSC, Barr. Edeoga and his co travellers have continued to make mountain out of molehill of it without any evidence.
The evil plot against Mbah by the duo of Bar. Edeoga and Nnaji, who has a Supreme Court Governor from Southeast zone as their partner in the crime and some compromised staff of NYSC came to the fore recently when a Federal High Court, Abuja in an ex-parte order stopped the NYSC from issuing further disclaimer on Mbah's certificate, pending the determination of the substantive suit.
Since the order was granted, NYSC leadership or management had not opposed it or complained about it. Expectedly Barr. Edeoga, an accomplice in the allegation of NYSC certificate forgery against Mbah and his social media bandits have been desecrating Mbah, the court and judge on social media platforms. They have overtly and covertly expressed their pains and frustrations with the court order. They have been trying to mislead the unsuspecting public with a false narrative about the court order. They made it look as if Mbah is trying to gag NYSC or circumvent justice, when in actual sense Mbah wanted NYSC to substantiate before the court that he didn't participate in their programme and they didn't issue him discharge certificate as being peddled on social media.
The question is why Barr. Edeoga and his supporters pained and frustrated with the court order in that regard and why are they crying more than the bereaved? It is just, because like the phantom ex-convict allegation against Mbah by them that had been exposed, their complicity in the allegation of NYSC certificate forgery against Mbah is gradually being exposed.
Just like Mbah's lawyer, Emeka Ozoani (SAN) said that NYSC has a case to answer in the allegation of NYSC certificate forgery against Mbah.
Ozoani said: "NYSC did not print this certificate. Because there are security features on it. It was printed by the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Ltd. And crack investigators in Nigeria have investigated this matter and they’re coming to give evidence against NYSC. And you know he can’t defend himself as Governor-elect, and that’s why we are here to also protect his interest and the interest of the people who voted for him in the Coal City of Enugu State, and his colleagues worldwide. We have received so much calls as to whether he actually went to NYSC or not. With the bundle of papers we have filed in court, it is clear that he was mobilized; at a certain stage he went to do his Bar Part II, and applied for deferment. Subsequently he came back and was re-mobilized. He completed the NYSC and was issued the certificate."
With this shocking disclosure from Mbah's lawyer, the die is cast and battle line drawn. It is hoped that the NYSC and its compromised staff in the allegation of certificate forgery against Mbah are ready to meet Mbah in court with incontrovertible evidence. Anything to the contrary will ridicule the NYSC. The allegation of complicity being leveled against NYSC by Mbah's counsel is too weighty to be ignored.
Subjecting Mbah's certificate to forensic audit will proved its genuineness and that it was issued by NYSC. This will bring to an end the phantom NYSC certificate forgery saga against Mbah.
