Halima Ibrahim Ndanusa, an alumnus of Ameer Shehu Idris College of Advanced Studies, Zaria of the Department of Public Administration has alleged a serving senator from Kaduna State used her result to gain admission into a university.
Ndanusa, who appeared before the election petitions tribunal, said she was extremely shocked when she discovered that a serving senator altered her name on her diploma certificate obtained from the college in 2013 to have allegedly secured admission to Ahmadu Bello University(ABU), Zaria. Ameer Shehu College of Advanced Studies is an affiliate of ABU, Zaria.
The complainant attended the school between 2011 and 2013 with the registration number A11/PA/1147 here she obtained a Diploma Certificate.
She said, ‘’I cried profusely when I heard that a senator used my hard–earned result to gain admission into ABU while I wandered around because of lack of a job.
I studied for two years through sleepless nights of hard work and research, but someone just forged the result,’’ she said.
In an interview with journalists after the court session, she expressed shock that people who forged results still ‘’shamefully’’ seek to lead their constituents while the real owners of the results suffer in abject poverty and unemployment.
The college was subpoenaed by the tribunal to testify in an election petition filed by Kaduna Central Senatorial District Tribunal by Muhammad Dattijo of the All Progressives Party(APC), against Senator Lawal Adamu Usman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), on a three-count charge including the first respondent’s qualification to contest election given his presentation of forged certificates and substantial non-compliance with electoral Act.
While testifying before the tribunal sitting in Kaduna yesterday, the college provost, Dr Richard Ogunleye Ibrahim said, ‘’We have thoroughly checked our records for the year 2011/2013 academic session and we do not have a student with the name Lawal Adamu with registration number A11/PA/1147.’’
The Provost continued, ‘’However, we can confirm that we have a female student, Halima Ibrahim Ndanusa, as the bonafide student with the same registration number A11/PA/1147 that graduated in the period under review’’.
Ndanusa, therefore, sought justice and prosecution of the offenders for using her results fraudulently.
She also called on the management of ABU to expunge her Diploma Certificate from the records of alleged graduates.