The presidency has denied President Muhammadu Buhari’s involvement in any certificate scandal.
Reacting to a publication in a national daily (not THISDAY), last night, with the headline: ‘Prominent Nigerians with certificate scandals,’ where Buhari was listed as one of the high profile Nigerian personalities with certificate scandal, the president’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement, said Buhari did not belong to the category.

Other personalities listed in certificate scandal by the newspaper were former President Goodluck Jonathan; former Senate President, Evans Enwerem; former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Salisu Buhari; Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose; and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu.
“We wish to emphatically state that President Buhari does not fit into categorisation of leaders with certificate scandals because he bears none that is on available records.
“In the course of the contest for the office of the President in 2015, a number of wild, untrue and malicious allegations were made against him in order to stop him from contesting for the office in the election.
“The issue of certificates was raised against him but the campaign successfully dealt with the allegations by providing evidence that not only was he qualified to run, he had a far higher academic qualification than is required by the constitution. As a result, he went on to run for the office and eventually win,” Garba said.