We screened and found Buhari qualified —Member, APC screening c’ttee - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/screened-found-buhari-qualified-member-apc-screening-cttee/#sthash.Fdz1JKi5.dpuf

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
LAGOS— All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), was scrutinised and found educationally qualified to be the party’s presidential flag bearer, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, a member of the party’s committee, who screened all five presidential aspirants, has said.
Abayomi’s assertion came as a senior Buhari aide affirmed that the campaign would not go into the mud with the candidate’s rivals on the issue. The senior campaign official said officials of the Buhari campaign were not in any way bothered on the issue given what he said was the uprightness of the General on the issue.
Abayomi in a statement yesterday affirmed he was a member of the presidential screening committee who scrutinised Buhari’s qualification for the presidency and found him fit and awarded him a certificate of clearance.

He further asserted that even without the production of the certificates that General Buhari was eminently qualified for the race and the presidency.
“As a member of the APC Screening Committee, I can affirm unequivocally that Gen. Buhari met the education qualification prescribed by the constitution,” he said as he went on to list the schools and courses attended by the former head of state.
He said: “Still the question remains, has General Buhari without presenting especially his school certificate or its equivalent met the education precondition set for presidential candidates in the constitution?”
“To begin with, the Constitution does not prescribe the presentation or show of any certificate to qualify for election to the office of President. Under section 131(d) of our military constitution, a person shall be qualified for election to the office of President if ‘he has been educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent.’

“While a certificate may unequivocally show that a contestant has been educated up to at least School Certificate level, his education without a certificate may show, again unequivocally that he has been educated up to the equivalent of School Certificate level.
“For example, assuming A is the best student in Ajuwa Grammar School, Okeagbe, Akoko. Now on the very day before the commencement of the West African School Certificate Examination, he sexually harassed the daughter of the English teacher as a result of which he was dismissed, will A be said not to have met the education qualification of section 131(d) of the constitution?
“In my view A has not only been educated up to at least School Certificate level he would also be deemed to have been educated to its equivalent. This position finds support in section 131 (d) which neither prescribed a pass which is required for certification nor a fail which denies it. The interest of the constitution is with the level of the education of the candidate howsoever acquired, not the certificate he acquires ipso facto.
“The APC screening committee was made up of several eminent, highly educated and enlightened men and a woman. They came to the conclusion after putting APC presidential aspirants through a most rigorous test that all the APC aspirants met the constitutional qualifications including education qualification to contest for election to the office of President.
“They confirmed this by awarding them a certificate. The qualification set by the constitution for contest is the level of education not its certificate.”

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APC certificate is not what we are asking for Sir!

Abayomi in a statement yesterday affirmed he was a member of the presidential screening committee who scrutinised Buhari’s qualification for the presidency and found him fit and awarded him a certificate of clearance.

Comments on the Web:

kai, So certificate shall no longer be proof of one having obtained basic education in Nigeria?

So we must close all schools and universities in Nigeria?

Woe to this APC goon who does not see certificate as proof of educational attainment.

Wow, listen to Obafemi Awolowo-s descendants who benefited from the man's free education but now want to join almajiri club.

You must be ready to have another country with the almajiris. This your APC spin is becoming unbearable. Must we all be dragged to the 18th century by this set of people sick with ethnic and religious bigotry?

In a country with millions of people with all classes of professions with provable basic education credentials, why must beneficiaries of Awo's free education drum to queue behind a Buhari who cannot prove that he passed trough basic primary and secondary education before he was corruptly enrolled in the then Nigerian Army and catapulted to the highest rank?

If I were Buhari and APC, instead of giving this explanation which exposes more & more the uncomfortable truth (which is that Pa Buhari has no certificates to prove his academic qualifications), I will insist rather that Jonathan and his Military refused to release my True Certificates. Though this is false, but at least, fools in Nigeria (for there are many for example: APC members, the Northern Almajiri numbering thousands, Boko Haram and their sympathizers, AREWA North, & Muslims all over Nigeria) will believe this to be true!

Buhari's popularity among Illiterates have soared!

Vote up if TRUE!

This so-called Dr Abayomi thinks he's talking to Iponri market women association. His reasoning and grounds for Buhari's seeming qualification saga appears not to have been thoroughly vetted, hasty and with laziness written all over this weak defense. Poor Buhari, the more they talk the more your dragged in the mud. Just quit!

Well, if this is not an "It depends what IS is" moment, I don't know what is. APC sure knows how to parse words and we don't need a soothsayer at this point to tell us GMB's war against corruption is dead on arrival. I can picture Tinubu rubbing his hands as he must know whether GMB has the qualifications he claims to have and only has to wait for the right moment to remind him to play ball or he would go public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKpkgtKDuHw