The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to tender his West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate to the presidential election petitions tribunal.
The main opposition said if truly the President had the certificate, as he claimed, he should tender it before the tribunal, instead of allowing his campaign spokesperson Festus Keyamo to “insult” the sensibility of Nigerians with what he called a lame attempt at diversionary tactics.
It also urged Nigerians to note that by claiming that an aspirant does not need a WAEC certificate but the ability to speak English to contest for the office of the President, the Buhari Presidency, through Keyamo, had admitted that the President does not have a WAEC certificate, as he claimed in his Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) documentation.
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In a statement yesterday in Abuja by PDP’s spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition said it was inexcusable for President Buhari to swear to an affidavit to claim an educational qualification he did not possess.
The statement added: “An attempt to deceive the public, using a defective reading and skewed interpretation of a section of the constitution cannot exonerate President Buhari.
“Moreover, Section 295 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is very clear on issues of interpretations and reference to questions of law.
“The PDP, therefore, maintains that the onus is on President Buhari, as ‘Mr. Integrity’ to tender the certificate, he claims to possess, before the tribunal, instead of this lame diversion from Presidential aides.”
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