Gen. Muhamadu Buhari (rtd.)
Northern Youth Forum has challenged the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhamadu Buhari (rtd.) to produce his
certificates to the electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) for him to properly take part in the electoral
contest.
The national President of the forum, Engineer Bello Gambo Bich,i said
in a press statement signed in Kano and made available to THISDAY on
Saturday,
“…General Buhari should do what is required of him by
presenting his certificates to the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) as other presidential candidates have done, instead of
hiding behind the fig leaf of constitutionalism.”
The statement further noted that it is true that the relevant section
131(d) of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria does not
require Buhari to physically present his certificates but to only show
that he ‘has been educated up to at least secondary school level or its
equivalent.”
Gambo added: "It is clear that the spirit of that provision demands
that he should present Certified True copies of his original
certificates because that is the only way that INEC will determine that
he has been educated up to secondary school level.’
While dismissing Buhari’s attestation that the original copies of his
certificates were with the military authorities, the group reminded him
that such claim was not enough to fulfill the constitutional
requirement.
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