A Nigerian man identified as Itsede Kingsley Okai has filed a suit in court against president Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). 

The suit was filed before the Federal High Court, Lagos to challenge Buhari's qualification to stand for the 2019 Presidential Election.

Some days ago, INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said there is room for legal action if anyone is in doubt of claims by candidates in the 2019 elections.

President Muhammadu Buhari had told the commission that his academic records are still with the military, sparking reactions, especially from critics of the government.

Speaking specifically about the personal particulars provided by the candidates, Yakubu said anyone suspecting false claims has the right to file legal action against such candidate.

Addressing a press conference at the commission headquarters on Friday, Yakubu said any doubt on the forms submitted by the candidates regarding their personal particulars can be challenged in court.

Below is what Itsede Kingsley Okai shared on his Facebook page; 

"Like I promised on Friday, I have filed a suit against Buhari and INEC before the Federal High Court, Lagos to challenge his qualification to stand for the 2019 Presidential Election. For this reason, I shall speak less of this matter since it's already before the Court. I believe in the Nigerian judiciary and hopeful the court will end this debate once and for all".

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/10/itsede-kingsley-okai-files-suit-against-buhari-and-inec-at-lagos-high-court.html

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The Dullard will not like this

Just provide your certificate buhari.

If you're in Lagos and you want to read this first hand, just go and buy akara early in the morning from that woman with her stall adjacent the Federal High Court.

Watch as the dullard will hire hundreds of SANs to defend this by obtaining restraining injunction.

Sick geriatric nomadic bastard.

Way to go since INEC is too lily livered to do their constitutional duty having been compromised.
Let's see how many SANs he would hire this time and if the young barrister would be threatened,bribed or blackmailed into withdrawing his suit.

Dubious old usurping terrorist

They will threat your life if you are not a man enough dont try it

I love this...

He must account for the certificate

Buhari is an illiterate herdsman.

Good step towards sending Bubu packing to Daura

25 SANs are presently on their way

May the law takes it course....

Thank God we have a President that does not intervene in the rule of law.

Buhari please show us your certificate. .. we don tire

I wish you all the best of luck Mr Man

This kind of case should have been handled by a well funded team of SANS because if he looses at high court and appeal court or supreme court,the judgement will become a precedent meaning he may be indirectly clearing the way for buhari in the judiciary

Buhari that has no regard 4d rule of law,even if he's disqualified he will still look 4a way to contest.buhari is a tyrant

He will be intimidated & threatened, I hope he got the balls.

Buhari is a criminal terrorist

The man has no case likewise Bubu

Right step in the right direction..

Good.

Let him rest the Law but he shouldn't cry foul when his case is thrown out.

THE LEVEL OF STUPIDITY THE INEC IS TAKING NIGERIANS FOR IS TOO MUCH.BUHARI SHOULD BE SHOWN THE WAY OUT BY THE CITIZENS OF NIGERIA.

You don't need Waec certificate to be a president.Read below
CONSTITUTION: MATTER ARISING

Most people do not know what the Constitution provides as equivalent of School Certificates because it is hidden in the Interpretation Section.

Some clairvoyant politicians who knew they would one day be affecte d by certificate issues put it there (when we dozed off) as PART IV: INTERPRETATION CITATION AND COMMENCEMENT, cast in stone in Section 318, where you will see that you don’t even require any certificate to be President of Nigeria – in Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. Hold your breath!

Have you read the Constitution’s Section 318?
According to Section 318, "School Certificate or its equivalent" means:
(a) a Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent, or Grade II Teacher’s Certificate, the City and Guilds Certificate; or
(b) education up to Secondary School Certificate level; or
(c) Primary Six School Leaving Certificate or its equivalent and -
(i) service in the public or private sector in the Federation in any capacity acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for a minimum of ten years, and
(ii) attendance at courses and training in such institutions as may be acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for periods totalling up to a minimum of one year, and
(iii) the ability to read, write, understand and communicate in the English language to the satisfaction of the Independent National Electoral Commission, and
(d) any other qualification acceptable by the Independent National Electoral Commission;”

So, did you know that even INEC has been empowered by the Constitution to accept any piece of employment paper as School Certificate equivalent to be even President of Nigeria?

Go and buy a certified true copy of the Constitution today and study it. It is your power that ignorance and laziness have taken away from you. Read our Constitution and let’s use the provisions to challenge our defecting dealers, sorry leaders in court. We will continue the conversation on citizens’ incurable ignorance of their constitutions in global context next week. But start studying our own Constitution today and you will be a more empowered citizen.

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Buhari please show us your certificate. .. we don tire

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Wonder why they cannot reach out to WAEC to produce his certificate or whether he did not write WAEC in the first place.

This is a very simple thing to do, Buhari have no certificate because if he actually have one, he would have presented it or request for another one from WAEC.

Buhari's free campaign team have started work again,just as they helped him to win in 2014 by leaving real issues and concentrating on dead cases.Nice one from u again

Before the case will kick off, this guy will be threatened and made to withdrew the case. Like it happened to that IBO lawyer

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May the law takes its course....

Thank God we have a President that does not intervene in the rule of law.

And Magu is still heading EFCC.