ketekete:
She goes on with the tweets below..

SOURCE: http://ketekete.com/zahra-took-twitter-defend-father-buhari/

you shd b ashamed of ur sef becos u father cud only come up wit a forge cert. If he cud go to d extent of forging a common waec i wonder wot he will do if given d opportnunity.

juniormusa:

Mr.man lg chairman is not common oh

Dem think say to win election easy? Even SUG President election no easy, not to talk of Councillor or LGA Chairman

kallmemrB:
Am not in support of Jonathan incompetence or wish he returns as president on may 29...

But what baffles me his Buhari attitude during this Saga.. What is so hard in presenting ur certificate and shutting ur doubters up

You can only present what you have or what is presentable, rather than Oluwole results. Buhari should just apply to WAEC or Cambridge directly to request for the original WASC result, so that all these distractions will stop. What is so difficult in that?

Riclord001:

hypocrisy is when the 'right people' can not do what they are called professionals for.

Nice attempt.

Hypocrisy is when the people don't appreciate the input of our professionals. ..even when it is glaring.

Last year alone, OPEC celebrated Diezani twice with their highest award in appreciation for her professional knowledge and exploits in the sector she plays.

Ngozi is ...coughs

America my foot. Are they not the same countries that have one yale graduate handing to a harvard graduate (universities for producing presidents) ad infinitum. And please dont call nigerians illiterates. If the literacy figures are low, its because of the weighting factor of the people from lokoja upwards. You are talking as if 21st century americans will request for a certificateless dictator as their leader.

balotellli:
This ppl especially the so-called fani-kayode r takin advantage of the fact that most nigerians re still illiterate. Anyways, u can only do this in third world countries like nija. I can only imagine the republican campaigning with their opposition's certificate. If u do that in america, then u re gone. When will nigeria become enlightened. Why re we still so gullible to this extent? Buhari ran for presidency in the past, just because they knw he wasn't going to win, they didn't come up with the issue of certificate. Now that all indices point to the fact that he's gonno win, then comes the issue of certificate. Hmmm. The same ppl said he's sick and wished him death. They said he's too old. All these propaganda just cos he's gonno win? Thos who said they gonno wage war if GMB wins had better hav a second thought. Buhari will win landside.

2pence:
Please Read.....

ONE NATION,TWO MORALITIES.

(THE REPUBLIC) By Shaka Momodu:shaka.momodu@thisdaylive.com

What started in hushed whispers and was quickly dismissed with incredulity as a mere beer parlour talk coming from idle minds, appears to be gradually turning into a scandal of monumental proportions that goes to the very heart of the Nigerian nation, barely three weeks to a crucial presidential election in which the person in question is a candidate. The more I wish the scandal goes away, the more intriguing and resilient it becomes.

I was very reluctant to make this intervention on the raging scandal concerning whether the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, possesses a secondary school certificate or not. But the more I ignore the controversy, the more worrisome the General’s attempt to so casually dismiss the grave allegations of possible fraud in his academic qualifications. The situation is murky, lurid and embarrassing with grave implications for the military and the country, and no one is providing proper clarity amid the smog of dust raised.

An otherwise straightforward issue is being explained in riddles, presumptions and evasive suppositions about a sterling military career which no one is in doubt of anyway. The doubt, however, comes from the foundation on which the referenced career was built. I have even read in some quarters that he holds a diploma certificate from United States Army War College. Well, to those arguments, I say as it is said in legal parlance, ex nihilo nihil fit, which means, something cannot stand on nothing or better still, something can only stand on something.
The constitutional qualification for a candidate to be eligible to stand for presidential election is a minimum of secondary school certificate or its equivalent. Otherwise, that person is deemed ineligible. As things stand now, Buhari’s eligibility is being questioned and all we get are emotive career profile responses spanning a lifetime, rising to the very pinnacle of the military as Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

The question now is: has the APC presidential candidate met this all important constitutional requirement? The nation is yet to get a concrete answer to this question.

Buhari’s first public statement at a press conference on the issue on Sunday failed to clear the air surrounding his academic records. If anything, it has added fuel to the raging fire. His argument that he has contested thrice before is unacceptable. He must go beyond the polemics and provide the necessary evidence about his certificate.

In a sworn affidavit earlier, the General did attest that his credentials and academic records were with the Military Board. That was the first curious move about the unfolding drama. Where are his original academic documents? As far as I know, no institution collects original certificates from a candidate for keepsake. The only copies collected by institutions and employers of labour are photocopies; original documents are only brought for sighting and then returned to the candidate. I, for instance, have my original academic documents. It is preposterous to say anyone will surrender his/her original academic certificates to an institution or an employer knowing full well that his/her entire life isn’t dependent on that institution. In any case, even if it was dependent on it, original certificates are your personal assets earned after being found worthy in character and learning. Even the most rabid supporters of the General know that original academic records are never given to institutions or employers; they are kept by the owner. I have spoken to few military officers in the last couple of days about the on-going macabre drama. They told me they have their original academic records with them. The question now is: why is Buhari’s case different? Can any of Buhari’s supporters whose original certificates are with his/her employer raise up his/her hand and be counted?

Okay, let’s even give the former head of state the benefit of the doubt that his academic certificates are with the Military Board, but he sure knows how to access them anytime he wants. And being a former head of state, his request to the Military Board for copies will be met with the utmost dispatch. Why didn’t he do that instead of rushing to swear an affidavit? Did he really need to swear an affidavit that his academic certificates are with the Secretary to the Military Board? It is worthy of note that Buhari didn’t say they were lost or burnt; he actually knows where they are, going by his affidavit. So, why didn’t he go and collect them instead of resorting to an affidavit? The army has issued a statement stating it has Buhari’s career records and not his academic records, stating further that all past military officers can request for the their credentials if they so desire. Why has Buhari refused to request for his credentials for onward submission to INEC, thereby taking the wind out of sails of this developing and embarrassing mess and subsequently putting the issue to rest once and for all? What is Buhari afraid of? Has he been living a lie all these years while pretending to be the most upright man in the country? Why did it take so long for the nation to find out the truth about Buhari’s academic or non-academic qualifications? Why is his party, the APC, unable to satisfactorily clear the air?
The argument by APC that he has commanded three divisions of the Nigerian Army, rose to the rank of a major general and ultimately became the head of state and has contested presidential elections thrice begs the question, and is neither here nor there. Where is his secondary school certificate upon which other possible academic records stand? As a matter of fact, it beggars belief that the party is making such a puerile argument, when what is needed is a robust rebuttal with unassailable facts by making a public presentation of his certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to quieten the doubts and suspicions. By taking the current position without a supporting shred of evidence, the party’s position has remained at best tenuous.

APC’s defence amounts to saying that a man who successfully committed a heist several times before he was eventually caught is not guilty of stealing because he was not caught in his many previous escapades. The question here is: can the grounds of past successful heists neutralise the fact that, that person committed a crime? Of course, the resounding answer to this is no. The fact that Buhari may have gotten away in the past and for so long because of the weakness of various institutions of state does not make it right. He has only been lucky that he operated within the regimented confines of the military establishment of a command-and-obey structure where questions of probity are hardly asked of superior officers. He probably got away in three election cycles because the rule didn’t require candidates to produce evidence of their qualifications. Added to that, is the fact that, it was taken for granted that he is a former head of state.

If Buhari is unable to provide evidence of a secondary school certificate or its equivalent, then there is a big problem. Whether he attended several military training programmes and courses is immaterial, if they were obtained without the basic qualifications to have become a commissioned officer of the Nigerian Army. The question that naturally arises from this is, which academic records did he use to join the army and on the basis of what was he promoted? Was he able to join the army and earn promotions on the strength of his ethno-religious background? Was it the quota system at play? Were entry requirements lowered for Buhari in 1962 when he entered the Nigeria Military Training College, the precursor of the Nigerian Defence Academy? What documents did he submit in the last three presidential election contests? The answer to this last question is that in the past, the rule only required a candidate to fill his qualifications, but that has changed. The rule according to Form CF001 now requires a candidate to not only fill his qualifications, he must attach photocopies of such. This was where the cat was let out of the bag. Instead of Buhari attaching his certificates as the rule requires, he ran to swear an affidavit that his documents were with the Military Board. Even if he merely filled his qualifications in the past, what were his claims? Did he swear to an affidavit to buttress those claims? If he did, won’t he then be guilty of perjury?

There are so many puzzles and fog surrounding this issue of Buhari’s certificate requiring urgent clarity. Ironically, the party that is riding on the crest of change and its candidate who has been rebranded and presented to Nigerians as a saint and the new face of change appear unwilling to subject themselves to the most basic requirement of transparency and the minimum legal requirement for eligibility. The sincerity of the change agents has been put to test, and instead of demonstrating that its “change” is not just a hollow sloganeering mantra, the APC has been foot-dragging and fiddling with the intelligence of Nigerians. And if I may remind APC and Buhari, “no one ever gets missing on a straight road.”

I have heard some people say, whether Buhari has a certificate or not, doesn’t matter, since a certificate is not what is required for one to provide good leadership. Well said. But my problem with that position is that it violates the law of the land. The more scary part of that preposition is his supporters’ willingness to tolerate this clear act of fraud by giving Buhari exemption from criminal liability of possible forgery and perjury while accusing others of corruption. And even arrogantly selling his candidacy on the strapline of integrity and unblemished record.

Now, how did Buhari spend his time before he was made chairman of PTF and after its dissolution? Has it even occurred to anyone that Buhari has never leveraged his influence and status as past head of state to support any worthy humanitarian cause such as eradication of polio, meningitis and even guinea worm that was very rampant in the North? Can anyone recall any forum where Buhari spoke to youths across ethnic and religious divides in an inspirational manner? Did he ever get invited to deliver any lecture anywhere in this country apart from Islamic events? Please, let someone correct me if I am wrong. Yet, this is the man who wants to change the fortunes of Nigeria, 30 yearWs after he left office as military head of state.

If the on-going controversy surrounding his certificate and his reluctance to clear the air with evidence is anything to go by, what legal and even moral grounds does he stand to aspire to the highest office in the land - when he cannot even meet the basic requirement of presenting his certificate? If proven that he has no secondary school certificate, then he may have perpetrated the greatest fraud in the military/political history of this country, and everything he has ever stood for will have no foundation anymore.

Think for a moment what the APC and its satellite groups - pro-democracy activists and our so-called constitutional lawyers would have done if a member of another party was the one accused of not having a certificate. All hell would have been let loose. They would be issuing statements everyday calling for investigation. But since this controversy broke, not a whimper from them. We have not heard that 60 lawyers are queuing up to defend the constitution against a possible breach by Buhari as they did to defend Speaker Aminu Tambuwal when he defected from his party, the PDP, and refused to relinquish his position.

Buhari by not producing his certificate means nothing as long as he is in APC. Talk of one nation, two moralities.


Credit :http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-one-nation-two-moralities/199605/

Beautifully articulated!

I just have to quote the whole article as every paragraph reflects the thoughts of majority Nigerians. The onus is on Buhari to extricate himself from these web of lies, deceit and fraud he's got himself entangled. The earlier the better!

onatisi:
and maybe u should ask urself under which electoral law and regulations did he contest those 3 times and under which reformed electoral law is he contesting now. Do ur research,then come back.

Can a law be reformed without passing the legislative branch. Come on dude, you are more intelligent than this, show me the law that was reformed and added to the constitution after 2011 elections, funny dude!

[quote author=ketekete post=30148479]

Oh damsel!
You radiate beauty
You smack of intelligence
You seem like one on whom the gods bestows wisdom.
Your exuberance can be felt and sensed miles away from you.
Not even time, space and Internet service can reduce your shine.
I wish u were even the one in your father's state seeking to be the President. But alas, not you but he.
Please go and tell him, we will vote NOT for him, for he has outlived our age, time, fantasies, realities, fortunes and EDUCATION.
Please fail not to tell him this.

She dey Surrey dey type this rubbish abi?? How patriotic??
She should be with BH proving to us how sinful Western Education is...according to her Dad, an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North, what then are his kids doing overseas instead of fighting FOR THE NORTH??

KINGTELLER:
She is doing all this for self-esteem.. My opnion though

Edited: I counter that remark of her that her father ran a post which can not be run by an illiterate Was Abacha a literate when he mounted the podium? ....

How do you define education and what forms of education do we have?

abbey621:


Can a law be reformed without passing the legislative branch. Come on dude, you are more intelligent than this, show me the law that was reformed and added to the constitution after 2011 elections, funny dude!

ok ,maybe u don't know I will explain . This has been explained various times here. Before 2011 ,candidates only needed to write their qualifications down in their forms that is all,but after 2011, there is a new procedure that mandates contestants to attach a copy of the academic credentials to their forms.

bosun11:
She obviously has a point but politics aint her business
from what she said, she is right...why are they clamouring for his certificate when he wants to run for the 4th time,because i don't think they have ever needed prove of his certificate in the previous 3 times he contested
PDP are scared , thats all i can see
Its just alarming and painful that in the whole of 190 Million Nigerians
we can only have two men who are high contenders for the seat of the president and who are both above 60 years of age....
Youths...are we indeed the leaders of tomorrow in this country?
May God help us all......Amen

Nxt tym before displaying ur ignorance
Goan reach Electoral law Ammended in 2011

onatisi:
ok ,maybe u don't know I will explain . This has been explained various times here. Before 2011 ,candidates only needed to write their qualifications down in their forms that is all,but after 2011, there is a new procedure that mandates contestants to attach a copy of the academic credentials to their forms.

Show me the ammendment in the constitution, please we are all educated here, show me the section in the constitution which specifically states that. I'm very eager to learn.....

PointB:
@Zahra,
We have security problem because unqualified and compromised people like your father managed to smuggled themselves into the military. And because he didn't know better (due to mental deficiency/incapacity) managed to destroy the army as a result of incompetency!

so so ignorant u re!!

barcanista:
Dem think say to win election easy? Even SUG President election no easy, not to talk of Councillor or LGA Chairman

Haha true talk guy

wait sef.....oga jonah no get child?....wey fit dey counter dis gal......?

Will you just sharraaappp your mouth there. You no even sabi the difference between forth and fourth...

Damager:
Again she says his certificate doesn't matter.. Did dis gal Eva apply 4 a job

I guess she got an admission into a University in Surrey without a high school result. Shioor

x9ja1960:
For our side;

Change is when an ordinary Nigerian becomes president and not the usual cabal that have held us hostage since 1960...e never happen before!

Change is when a Nigerian president (presidential system) has a phd and a result to prove it...e never happen before!

Change is when petrol price goes down in Nigeria...e never happen before!

Change is when you have a port in Onitsha...e never happen before!

Change is when cars are being built in Nnewi...e never happen before!

Change is when a Nigerian president has all his children studing in Nigeria...e never happen before!

Change is when a Nigerian president allows free and fair elections, freedom of speech, so much that the opposition come get mouth dey shout change...lol...e never happen before!

Change is GEJ and GEJ is Change! No wonder those old men dey vex...power don commot dia domot...lol

Add ur own ooo...


https://www.nairaland.com/2111829/define-change-area

You should be very ashamed of yourself.

50calibre:


Your stupi*dity is impoverishing you.

Rid yourself of foolishness & face reality.

The insult is totally unnecessary sha...just because I have a different view from yours does qualify for stupidity or poverty or whats the other gutter word you used? foolishness...sha that's the so called 'progressives' way and only shows your pain... but what I know (my Arab friends will say)? I know you must have a transformer around you...I mean electric transformer not GEJ...*no homo*...kindly hug it tight...

Right now there is high level of insecurity in the North. This insecurity affects non indigene more especially. As it stands now, there is no freedom of association and you are not allowed to join a political party of your choice.
As it stand ma’am (Zahra), we are all consider as infidels because we are perceived to GEJ loyalist. Any of your hausa/Fulani also who dare to support GEJ is also consider to anti Islam, why? How do you think there is security in this country with this kind of politics your father is playing in the north? My people in the south don't know what we are facing here in the north. Now with our PVC in our hands yet we cannot vote because we are relocating to safe heaven before 14th Feb.
Pls Zahara beg your father to tell his boys not kill or burn our properties. Let him know we have right to chose whosoever we like just as many of brothers in the south will vote him and nobody will ask the why.

Sweetlemon:


You should be very ashamed of yourself.

Why should I be? I expect you to tell me when it happened...if that's your only objection in the list...

THIS SMALL GIRL SHOULD TELL HER PAPA NOT TO BE CLOWNISH, HE SHOULD PRODUCE HIS CERTIFICATE..IT DOESNT PAY TO ENTER THE ARMY THROUGH BACK YARD


WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE DUE PROCESS


GEJ TILL BUHARI CONFESSES LORD AS HIS PERSONAL SAVIOUR

PassingShot:


How many times does he need to explain what happened to his certificates?

Is WAEC DEAD?? YOU PEOPLE SHOULD STOP THIS RUBBISH JOOR??

onatisi:
yes ,inec has no problems but inec isn't going to vote. It is the nigerian populace that will go to the polling booths in the hot sun that are asking for something to boost their confidence in their candidate. Why is buhari delibrately courting controversy? Honestly ,partisan issue aside,do u know that buhari stands to gain more advantage over pdp if he produces that result? So why doesn't he just do it? with each passing day as this issue drags on ,he is losing supporters and voters .nobody cares about his date of birth or exam numbers .it is believed that he has a chance to win ,but he shouldn't take the feelings of nigerians for granted ,they hate to be taken for a ride .

I remember that when the certificate saga first started, I said here that Buhari will eventually address the issue. I am happy he finally did. Now that the PDP remains persistent, I also expect that the General will soon cause his certificate to be released.

The fact is that when that is even done, PDP will still look for some stoopid thing to say about it. Something like the name on the cert is Muhamed while his is Mohammadu. Can they really be satisfied? And that's why you have to agree with the General to ignore them sometimes.

Sweetlemon:


You should be very ashamed of yourself.

And you should get your facts right.... that is a fact.

barcanista:
My Dear, are Nigerians complaining?

Well mr man, i am a nigerian. U cant speak for me, neither can u speak for all nigerians. Speak for yourself only.

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Security comes first but your father created Boko Haram and sent you to London to wear Gucci Shirts and Chanel shoes...plus LV lipsticks, a poor cattle rearer as he claims....now u want to smell Aso rock , NEVER!!!!

barcanista:
Maybe sha..but na Senate or Governor be my target

Thief
U no wan start looting from small level
Na. From the high place u wan start

Tallesty1:
Seems like Buhari is wiser than you even without his certificate. How did you know the mind of all Nigerians.




Eerm, Zahra abi Zobo, tell your dad to call his boys to order oo, he should have known that to give monkey water no hard, na to collect cup be wahala............


GEJ is not the best but GMB is not an option.

. Best comment so far

HzRF:

Thief
U no wan start looting from small level
Na. From the high place u wan start

No be thief matter, na service delivery

PassingShot:


I remember that when the certificate saga first started, I said here that Buhari will eventually address the issue. I am happy he finally did. Now that the PDP remains persistent, I also expect that the General will soon cause his certificate to be released.

The fact is that when that is even done, PDP will still look for some stoopid thing to say about it. Something like the name on the cert is Muhamed while his is Mohammadu. Can they really be satisfied? And that's why you have to agree with the General to ignore them sometimes.

that is where u have gotten it wrong. Don't forget elections is just about 18 days now. And this are the most crucial days in any campaign ,it is now ppl are beginning to make their decisions on who to vote for,if buhari brings out the certificate at a time it can't be verified ,believe ne it will backfire on him . But look at a scenario where buhari brings out his credentials and tells inec or any independent body to verify it and it is found to be true,do u know how elated his supporters will be ?even ffk will look stupid for raising the issue .and going into an election with that can really change things . But it is only if we are to deceive ourselves will we not see and recognise the the tide is changing fast against buhari ,even here on nairaland and other social media ,his supporters are running out of ideas about how to defend him .