PDP Calls For The Removal Of Governor Ayade Over Age Falsification

Yesterday PDP filed a motion via the Supreme Court to evict Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River State from office over allegation that he falsified his age.
The party, through its lawyer, Mr. N. Ibegbulam, told the apex court headed by Justice Bode Rhodes Vivour,that it was in support of an appeal by Mr. Joe Agi, SAN, against Ayade.
Agi who came second in the governorship primary election of the PDP, had in his appeal, insisted that Ayade lied about his age. He adduced exhibits before the court showing that Ayade had in three different affidavits that were deposed to on oath, supplied conflicting dates as his year of birth.
Specifically, the evidence before the court showed that Ayade had in the Nomination Form, Code PD 003/G, which he used to contest the Cross River State election, stated on oath that he was born on March 2, 1969.
However, the age declaration he attached to the form, which his brother Frank Ayade swore to before a Cross River State High Court sitting at Oleh on February 1, 2007, indicated that the defendant was born in 1968. .
Moreover, the plaintiff tendered in evidence, a document that showed that the governor, while applying for admission into the University of Ibadan, gave an age declaration stating that he was born on March 2, 1966. The bio-data was allegedly issued by U.I itself.
When the matter came up for hearing yesterday, PDP, told the apex court that it was satisfied that Ayade violated its Electoral Guidelines by furnishing it with wrong data about his age