I've been following the hullabaloo that has greeted the news that the APC Presidential flag bearer, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari did not present his academic credentials to INEC and, with all sense of patriotism, I think we all need to get something straight, formal education doesn't guarantee good governance and lack of it is not an indication of absence of leadership skills and other personality attributes necessary to perform and deliver on the KPIs of Good Governance. My thoughts are better captured in the following post by Festus Eriye, in response to a statement credited to Professor Wale Oladipo in The Nation Newspaper today.

"PDP National Secretary, Professor Wale
Oladipo, says this February Nigerians will
have to choose between Goodluck
Jonathan the PhD holder and Muhammadu
Buhari, the ‘semi-illiterate’ jackboot.

Oladipo isn't saying Buhari cannot read
and write in English, Hausa or Arabic. He
isn't accusing him of not passing through
the precincts of some primary, secondary
or military school. The former head of
state has been forcibly demoted to the
ranks of the illiterate because he didn’t
attend a university.

Thankfully for the APC candidate that is
no hindrance to his aspirations as the
constitution only requires him to have
secondary school education – a
conditions he more than meets.

Given that Oladipo is some sort of
professor it is amazing he does not
understand that mighty accomplishments
are not a function of your string of
degrees. Some of the greatest business
leaders the world has ever known are
either university dropouts or never even
had the tertiary education experience.

Names like Microsoft founder and one of
the world’ s richest men, Bill Gates; Oracle
founder, Larry Ellison, worth $28 billion
who dropped out of University of Chicago;
Chelsea Football Club owner , Roman
Abramovich, worth $11.2 billion – a
college dropout who once sold plastic
toys out of his small apartment in Russia.
But the most interesting example is
Britain’s war time Prime Minister Winston
Churchill who had a very poor academic
record in school. He struggled through
three independent schools before ending
up at the famous Harrow School.

After leaving Harrow he applied to attend
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He
would make three attempts before
passing the entrance examination.
Although he never went to university,
Churchill is today regarded as one of the
greatest wartime leaders of the 20 th
century. He is the only British Prime
Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in
Literature since its inception in 1901, and
has been voted the greatest Briton ever.

Strong leadership comes from your innate
character traits, not the number of paper
qualifications on your wall . Enough said."

Source: www.thenationonlineng.net/new/phd-illiterate/

My question to all Nairalanders: If Nigeria is a company under us as a Board of Directors, would we rather employ an incompetent business manager with strings of certificates or one who can very well deliver, but without much certificates?

I'll go for the latter. There's always room to improve.

What has Wale Oladipo contributed to this country with his education?? Has he reinvented the wheel ?

It is my considered opinion that capable men and women who love God and love the people must offer themselves to serve when the opportunity arises, for, as Plato said, “the price good men pay for
indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by
evil men”. - Pastor Tunde Bakare.

And when good men offer themselves, it's up to the people to be wise enough to elect them to manage their common resources, because in the end "a people will get the government they deserve". [Alexis de Tocqueville]

So,finally the apologists of the illiterate contestant to the office of the president of Federal Republic of Nigeria(Buhari) has come out to whine? Lmao.
If INEC allow an Illiterate to contest this election against the rule of law,they would have set a dangerous precedence in the leadership of Nigeria as herdsmen and al-majiris from north will soon be given much sought opportunity to destroy what is left of Nigeria.