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Eromosele Igbegu, a lawyer in Edo, has asked a federal high court to prosecute Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a governorship candidate in the state, over his alleged fraudulent admission to the Nigerian Law School.

Ize-Iyamu was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2020 Edo governorship election. He lost to Godwin Obaseki, the governor.

The lawyer said the case is an amendment of suit FHC/B/CS/73/2020 which he filed on July 13, 2020, asking the court to prohibit Ize-Iyamu from parading himself as a lawyer on account of an alleged false information provided the Nigerian Law School in 1986 and subsequent call to the Nigerian bar in 1987.

Igbegu asked the court to direct the attorney-general of the federation to prosecute Ize-Iyamu for alleged infractions against the provisions of the criminal code act.

“The suit seeks for relief including that Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu misrepresented the fact and lied under Oath concerning and touching on his history of expulsion and rustication in the application into the Nigerian Law School form, a form he said Mr Ize-Iyamu filled under Oath in 1986,” Igbegu said.

“Mr. Ize-Iyamu admission into the Nigerian law school in 1986 and call to the Nigerian Bar in 1987 is in breach of Sections 4(1)(c) & 11(1)(c) of the Legal Practitioners Act and Code 35 under Part B of the council of Legal Education’s code for students of the Nigerian Law School.”

The suit is expected to come up for hearing on January 12.