Buhari should be sued for perjury – PDP tells Justice Ministry

by James Sambo

After the release of the credentials of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has implored the Ministry of Justice to take action, saying that the certificates are inauthentic.

A source from the PDP says the party has concluded to investigate Buhari’s statement of result and the confidential result sheet by the University of Cambridge.

In the result sheet, Buhari’s name was the second among the 17 candidates that sat for the Cambridge/West African School Certificate Examination in 1961.

The statement of result and were both dated January 21, stamped and signed by the Principal and Examination Officer, Government College, Katsina (formerly Provincial Secondary School).

The party official, who craved anonymity, said: “The plan of the PDP is to contest Buhari’s academic qualification on two fronts.

“We will first contest the APC presidential candidate’s credentials by writing to all the institutions he attended for the verification of his certificates. We already have individuals in our party that are doing that. On the other hand, the ruling party will prevail on the Ministry of Justice to sue the former head of state for perjury.”

“This means he (Buhari) lied on oath when he said his credentials were with the army. We are not going to take this from him at all. It is the job of the Ministry of Justice to look into this case of perjury and we are going to remind them.”

In a similar vein, the Director of Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, January 23, had urged Buhari to submit himself for prejury.

He had said: “If they fail to come forward voluntarily, we hereby call on the police and other security agencies to seek them out, find them, arrest them, interrogate them and prosecute them in accordance with the laws of the land.”