Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has urged President Bola Tinubu to suspend the Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Uche Nnaji, over allegations of certificate forgery.

Naijaonpoint reports that Effiong, while responding to questions in an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today,’ described the allegations as grave.

The lawyer expressed shock that such alleged irregularities escaped scrutiny during Nnaji’s screening before appointment.

According to Effiong, the inconsistencies in Nnaji’s academic records and the conflicting statements from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) required urgent attention.

The human rights activist added that Nnaji should surrender himself to the police for investigation for forgery.

He said, “How did all these things escape the scrutiny of the Nigerian State Security Service?

“As I speak to you, the State Security Service has maintained a conspiratorial silence. It is a conspiracy.

“This minister must be immediately suspended pending the conclusion of the investigation.

“He has to surrender himself to the police for investigation for forgery; otherwise, they will be telling Nigerians that we are running a government of certificate forgers and criminality.”

Meanwhile the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said that the party is not surprised that President Bola Tinubu has retained Uche Nnaji in the Federal Government.

This is coming after the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and the NYSC disowned the certificates he presented for his appointment.

In a statement to Naijaonpoint on Monday signed by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, the ADC described the Tinubu government’s silence as proof of its ample tolerance for corruption of all kinds.

The party described as a great disservice to the country, which has many qualified citizens of competence and integrity, to have at the head of a ministry meant to drive innovation a man tainted with such dubious credentials.

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