PDP faults Buhari’s explanation of certificate saga

ABUJA — PRESIDENTIAL Campaign Organisation of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, faulted explanation by presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, on the alleged certificate scam.

In a statement, yesterday, by the Director, Media and Publicity of PDP Presidential Candidate, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, the group noted that the fact that Buhari got away without the presentation of required credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in 2003, 2007, and 2011 as required by law did not mean that in 2015, he would as well get away with it.

The statement read: “It is disingenuous for Buhari to say that he contested previous elections and that the issue of his qualifications did not arise. Had INEC not complied with the Electoral Act this year, which requires that they paste the academic credentials of all the presidential candidates, Nigerians would have remained ignorant of the fact that Buhari has probably been submitting affidavits for the past elections.

“The fact that he got away with it in 2003, 2007 and 2011 does not make it right. The minimum that Nigerians require from Buhari is the presentation of his secondary school certificate which enabled him to gain admission into the Nigerian Military College in 1962 and on which basis he became a commissioned officer of the Nigerian Army.

“This forms the fulcrum for the subsequent courses that he attended as he rose in the Army, including the U.S. War College. Failure to produce that school certificate implies that Buhari’s entire career in the Army was based on falsehood which cannot stand. This brings to question the admission system/policy into the Army in the early 1960’s. See more