The All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop hounding its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari over the issue of his credentials, especially his school leaving certificate.
The APC Director of Publicity, Barr. Kunle Oyatomi, in a press statement issued in Osogbo yesterday said the insinuations by the PDP that Buhari was not qualified to contest the February 14 election only showed the level that the PDP had sunk in its perception of decency in governance and civilised political engagement.
“This assertion by the PDP, not only cynically assaults the person of Gen. Buhari, it also insults the integrity of the military as an institution’, APC said.
The party further stated: “Whoever started the vile insinuation that Buhari was was unqualified is worthy of his own status in the PDP hierarchy. The truth of the matter is that the ruling party is in control of all federal institutions of government and is by extension in possession of all Buhari’s credentials in the military establishment.”
APC contended that Buhari is not constitutionally required to present any certificate to INEC, going by the dictates of Sec. 131, subsection D and its interpretation clause in Part 1V of the constitution.
“Secondly, the Electoral Act, Sec 31 subsection 5, Specifically says that nobody who believed that there was something false in the disposition of a candidate’s documentation to INEC, which could disqualify that candidate from participating in the election, should proceed to the court to seek redress,” APC said.
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