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The West Africa Examination Council has said it is not in any way perverting the course of justice of any highly placed persons whose electoral victories in the last national elections are being challenged in court by their opponents. A statement signed by WAEC and made available to The PUNCH on Thursday said it would have ignored all the baseless, and malicious allegations, in Nigeria. It read, “These reports even alleged that “top WAEC Directors at the Yaba office received huge sums of money in several tranches to conceal and doctor information on WAEC records concerning some defendants.” “The reports went on to say that WAEC has been complicit in denying all litigants access to examination records in proof of their cases in court.”  The reports also bogusly claimed that an investigative agency had gone to Ghana and completed investigations while efforts to do so in Nigeria were blocked by some WAEC officials.”  It explained that the mandate of WAEC was to conduct examinations and award certificates to deserving candidates, “It is a no-respecter of positions or personalities. “WAEC will never be intimidated into doing the unethical. It is guided by the principles of professionalism and integrity. It isa We shall always say the truth,no matter whose ox is gored!.