The Alumni of the Government Secondary School (GSS) Wukari, who graduated in 2000, have tackled retired Major General AT Ibrahim over a petition he recently submitted against David Jimkuta, alleging that the senator forged his secondary school result which he submitted to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as his credentials for nomination.
Ibrahim, an aspirant in the just-concluded primary election of the APC for Taraba Southern Senatorial District wrote a petition dated 21/09/2026 which was submitted to the Office of the National Chairman of the party, seeking to disqualify Jimkuta, who defeated him (Ibrahim) during the recent Senatorial primary election.
The petition entitled ‘Petition for the disqualification of Senator David Jimkuta for submitting forged documents to INEC and also for making a falce declaration on oath to the party and INEC’.
‘I sincerely know as true and correct, that Senator David Jimkuta submitted forged documents to INEC and also made false declarations on Oath in his Declaration of Interest and Nomination Forms to the party and INEC respectively. The said forged documents submitted to INEC are National Examinations Certificates while these said documents were also attached to his Declaration of Interest and Nomination Forms and sworn to be real, to enable him qualify and/or be qualified constitutionally, to run and be nominated as the candidate of the party for the Taraba South Senatorial District election slated for 2027’, The petition read.
Speaking with journalists in Jalingo, Taraba State Capital on Wednesday, some class mates of Jimkuta led by Haruna Magaji and Galeya Gembo Suntai accused Ibrahim of creating false allegations in his petition against Jimkuta to distract the senator from focusing on his campaign.
The GSS Wukari 2000 set members, who appeared during the press briefing, included Zakaria Luka, Emmanuel Audu, Manasseh Wunuji, Haruna Magaji and Habibu Isyaka, they both declared that both of them graduated the same year with Jimkuta.
Magaji stated that set 2000 was the pioneer students that wrote National Examination Council (NECO) which Jimkuta, the certificate he used as credentials for INEC and APC nomination forms.
‘We have once again visited the GSS to be sure of what Gen. Ibrahim has petitioned against the senator, we collected the gazette and conducted thorough check, Sen. David Jimkuta’s name is number 98 on our list, we are sure before we decided to appear for this press briefing.
‘We want to sound very clear, not only to Gen. AT Ibrahim but for everybody to know that Sen. Jimkuta graduated together with us during the set 2000 in Wukari at GSS, for the sake of records. Our Head Boy was Mr. Magai Tsokwa, our Head Girl was Lady Dankaro our Principal was
Lat Mr Adda Ali and some of the teachers who are prominent in the society are Daniel Ishaya Gani (Skeco)
and Mr A. Hausa.
‘The set 2000 also accused Gen. Ibrahim of not raising anybody within the society through out his military carrier but rather has chosen to bring down Sen. Jimkuta who in his 3 years at the Senate has empowered hundreds of people from the southern senatorial district of the state.
‘We are not happy with what Gen. Ibrahim has done, he leaves in Wukari, his house to the school where we graduated is just a stone throw, he can simply take a walk to GSS and make findings himself, instead he has made himself a laughing stock at the national Secretariat of the APC.
‘We are calling on the General to verify his information before going out, as an elder in our society, we prefer to continue guiding and protecting him the same way Sen. Jimkuta has recently sponsored his medical trip abroad where he survived, rather than presenting himself for falsehood’, Magai stated.