Certificate saga: APC warns PDP to stop hounding Buhari

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.