NECO clears Ifeanyi Ubah of certificate forgery allegations, authenticates his result with INEC

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has cleared Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, confirming the certificate he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is original and authentic.

In a letter marked NECO/R/LGS/20/003, dated 23rd January 2020 and addressed to the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and his party, YPP, the examination body released Ubah’s result details and cleared the air about Statement of Result and NECO Certificate.

NECO confirmed that Ifeanyi Ubah took a total of eight subjects and obtained the following results:

English Language – C6 CREDIT

Mathematics – C6 CREDIT

Biology – F9 FAIL

Government – C6 CREDIT

Economics – C5 CREDIT

Literature in English – C5 CREDIT

Commerce – C5 CREDIT

Christian Religious Studies – C6 CREDIT

NECO further explained that the conventional and obtainable practice among examination bodies is that failed subjects are not recorded in the certificate, although they remain in the examination bodies’ database and continue to appear in both the statement of results and confirmation of results usually sent to educational institutions.

In simple language, examination bodies do not issue certificates for failed subjects.

“In all, we state with every sense of duty and responsibility that both the statement of result and the certificate are genuine. They both emanated from the council and correspond with the records in our database,” NECO stated.