Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada The Presidency on Sunday declared that President Muhammadu Buhari has no
certificate scandal.
The Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, was
reacting to a report in a national newspaper on leaders with past certificate controversy.
In the letter to the organization, Shehu wrote: “In reaction to your cover
story this morning Sunday, March 26,2017, we wish to emphatically state
that President Muhammadu Buhari does not fit into your categorization 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.
“Since the purpose of the challenge was primarily to stop him from being a
candidate in that election, the challengers either voluntarily withdrew or
abandoned the cases soon after he won and all of them were subsequently
struck off by the courts.
“The President has no certificate case hanging on his neck. The Punch
editors should kindly update their records to avoid making this repeated
mistake,” he stated.
