by Damilola Jagun
The Peoples Democratic Party has yet again challenged the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to show the world his school certificate.
Key members of the party collectively made the call at the PDP presidential campaign rally organised for President Goodluck Jonathan in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday, January 13.
The Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr. Ahmadu Ali, was the first to broach the subject.
He said: “Nigeria is working under Jonathan. Ekiti has more than 60 per cent of all the professors in Nigeria. You have no business voting for somebody whose schools certificates we have just been informed were not available.”
Similarly, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, said anyone interested in ruling the country must have the necessary academic qualification, while he also tendered his certificates at the rally.
He said: “Anybody who wants to be the president of this country must have the necessary qualification. The APC said I don’t have a certificate. They shouted and went to the Polytechnic of Ibadan, secondary and primary schools to get photocopies of the forms I submitted. The court told them they are liars and propagandists. Let General Buhari flaunt his certificate if he has got them.”
The Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, while speaking on behalf of other PDP governors also challenged Buhari to produce his certificate.
He said:”Does the Presidential candidate of the APC have a secondary school certificate? They must answer. They can’t sweep it under the carpet. If a man says he would fight corruption, we must be sure of his personal integrity. If truly he does not have the certificate, did he swear to an affidavit that his certificate is with the military authorities?”
“We want a president that is educated, with a caring heart, that is compassionate, that is cool even in the face of provocation. We want a president who can preside over elections that his party will lose and will congratulate the opposition.”
Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu, said Jonathan had demonstrated good leadership and tolerance.
“Your President is very educated. He is an enlightened President. It is due to the tolerance of Jonathan that today we don’t have any political leader that is in exile or in jail. It is because of freedom he has brought, that is why we have absolute free press freedom that even when they say something that is not true about him, none of them is in jail.”
Mimiko the traktor, with jonathana education and yours, we see the way you mismanaged info affairs, How you looted. Se e what GEJ has turned our nation into. You are are disgrace to the medical profession. You are a traitor and we the people of ondo will show you at the polls.