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How low can it get?

WinsomeX:
I am not asking for what you think the matter is. I want to know what he was accused of. What is the court adjudicating over.

Why? Is English so difficult to comprehend?

Buhari certificate saga: Tension in
APC camp over court case ...
www​.vanguardngr.com/.../ buhari - ..

WinsomeX:
oh, it's now perjury. Provide the link to where it said perjury. What I'm aware of is eligibility.

lying on oath is perjury. His cert was/is not with the military board as claimed in his affidavit.

abduljabbar4:
These useless cases are still alive? Let's wait and see.
The military has found his certificate so he didn't lie under an oath.

No. the military never said so. Buhari cert. just like the chibok girls will remain a mystery. The more u look, the less u see.

WinsomeX:
INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION WITH REGARDS TO BUHARI'S CERTIFICATE

Over the last few weeks , the news media, including social media platforms , have been inundated with the controversy over whether or not former military Head of States and presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari possesses the minimum educational qualification to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the coming February 14 general elections . LAW EDITOR , Adam Adedimeji explains certain provisions of the constitution many commentators have tried to close their eyes to:

“A person shall be qualified for election to the Office of President if: ( a) He is a citizen of Nigeria by birth ; ( b ) He has attained the
age of forty years; ( c ) He is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that
political party; and ( d) He has been educated up to at least SCHOOL CERTIFICATE LEVEL OR ITS EQUIVALENT ( emphasis mine) .” – Section 131 of the 1999 constitution.

The above provision under Section 131, paragraph ( a ) – ( d) of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria is what summarises conditions to be fulfilled by an aspirant to the position of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The provision however has in the last few weeks become the most popularly cited
section of the Nigerian constitution as well as a source of controversy. Different interpretations are therefore been given to the particular section either by way of misunderstanding , misrepresentation, misinterpretation or all of the above among political parties as well as its members in order to outdo one another in the fight for votes during the February 14 general elections.

This writer however curiously noticed that most commentators on the ‘ controversial section’ failed to observe that “School Certificate level” as stated by the constitution is unclassified. Most of them only assumed it to be Secondary Leaving
Certificate without bothering to find out what the constitution framers meant since it could also have meant Primary School Leaving Certificate.

Although it is said that all is fair in a contest , the fact that a constitutional provision is in place and its interpretation is to certain extent unambiguous, makes this particular altercations, irrespective of political nature in it an unfair game.

To fully understand the constitution , one needs to take a cursory look at the
provisions of the constitution under Part IV , Article 318 ( 1) that deals with Interpretation, Citation and Commencement.

This particular part , that is , Part IV of the Constitution , interprets the meanings given by the framers of the constitution in order not to give way for unintended meanings to constitutional provisions as we are now
witnessing in this circumstance .

[b]In Chapter VIII, Part VI of the 1999 Constitution , Section 318 ( 1) gave a lucid interpretation to what the constitution meant by “School Certificate or its equivalent” thus : “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 totaling 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."
In essence , constitutionally , a presidential contestant is eligible even if the only
educational qualification he /she possesses is a mere “Primary Six School Leaving
Certificate” or “the ability to read , write , understand and communicate in the English Language ” or “service in the public or private sector in the Federation in any capacity acceptable to INEC for a minimum of ten years” or “attendance at courses and training in such institutions as may beacceptable to the INEC for periods totaling up to a minimum of one year. ” [/b]


This is the present position of the law . Nigerians are however free to propose its
amendment if there is a general believe that we need to increase qualification standard for would be presidential aspirants in Nigeria .

www.dailyindependentnig.com/2015/01/qualification-election-constitution-really-say/

guy we are dealing with a case of perjury, not elegiblity.

SLIDEwaxie:
this is English language:

The suitbwas to disqualify him to run, but he has ran and won, the suit against him is baseless and useless.

Besides, the law didn't say a runner must have ssce, it sply said ssce is the minimum requirement. What if he had a maximum one?

we are talking about perjury here not elegibility. Buhari had no secondary sch certificate with the military- fact.

But this is apc supporter o! did u expect this guy to be sincere?

raumdeuter:
No more money from their sponsor in Aso rock

here.
Buhari: Military Offensive against
Boko Haram, Anti-north ...
www​.thisdaylive.com/.../
buhari ... boko- ...
3 Jun 2013 ... Buhari: Military
Offensive against Boko Haram , Anti-
north ....

9jatriot:
Opposition has been asking your oga to flush out boko haram for the past 6 yrs, but he claimed they were his siblings until he was about to lose the election then he discovered that in 6wks he could do it. Thanks OP for pointing out that, opposition was right again. In fairness to them, they have always insisted that a serious government will be able to flush them out and that the Nigerian army was capable of flushing them out if allowed to do so. These past 7 wks has shown that they were right after all

www​.punchng.com/
3 Jun 2013 ... Buhari faults crackdown
on Boko Haram

9jii:
So you never hear GEJ postponed the election for 6 weeks to clear them out?
Or did you think he was lying as usual?

Really? The last i checked, boko haram had declared support for buhari.
Can u remember this statement " Stop Killing Boko Haram Members"
Buhari Tells FG

Suddenly, Boko Haram are no more
bombing, Sahara reporters who were
the eye, nose and mouth of BH have
gone to bed. Why A) Nigeria Army
has killed all of them. B) Jonathan gave
them amnesty C) Their sponsor/Oga
won election. D) Chibok Girls are all
pregnant.

eyaah! rip to the death

Bayswater:
I was thinking you programmed dolt will counter the facts I have stated above but all you could do is to throw abuses and tantrums. Proper doom awaits you unlearned lot on this forum.
I will state it here again, Buhari can not singlehandedly repeal a pension law that was passed by a state house of assembly. The man has simply been saying what people want to hear. One could smell the deception from afar.

You didn't need to dignify his post with a response. Allow them to wallow in their fantasy. Is this not the lot who believe buhari will stabilise oil price? I had since given up on our supposed educated youths of nigeria.

The reporr didn't mention the name of the polling units, why?

The chibok scam, just like the america's scam of iraq's sadam possesion of weapon of mass destruction: was meant to demonise gej and destroy his support base.
We are watching this nollywood.

theV0ice:
Perfect answer

out of all the issues raised in the article, he wanted to paint a picture of a perfect electioneering process in the north, and that made me draw his attention to youtube videos. How about the number of registered voters in kano surpasing that of lagos?

espn:
You have no point..if the card reader fails to read ur finger prints..u r advised to wash ur hands.. nd if u r still unable to be verified by d card reader..an incidence form would be filled for u and u will proceed with accreditation and voting.. so what took GEJ 35 mins to get accredited.. the whole scenario was stage managed just to discredit the card reader and allow for manual voting in the SS and SE. The only time when u v a problem is when the card reader refuse to read ur PVC.. so don't sell lies for us here..

There are video evidence on youtube, showing children in most northern states voting without incidence form or card readers.

By Femi AribisalaPremium Times April 7,
2015
How Jega Defeated Jonathan for Buhari in
the Election,
By Femi Aribisala 2015-04-07 on Tuesday,
Columns, Issues of the Day
The innovation of the Permanent Voters
Cards is designed to permanently
disenfranchise the South. If this is not
redressed immediately, the North will
always determine the winner in Nigerian
elections.
If you did not see my column last week, it
was because I did not want to rain on
anyone’s parade. I wanted the euphoria
over the bullet we missed by avoiding the
riots that would have ensued had the APC
been defeated to subside. But I am now
back to tell you that the presidential
election was a big INEC rigmarole. Long
before Jonathan lost the election to
Buhari, he had been defeated by the
machinations of Jega and INEC.
As a matter of fact, General Buhari did not
win this presidential election: President
Jonathan lost it. The president lost
because he allowed himself to be
defeated. Maybe he did not want to
remain in power badly enough. Or maybe
there was a side of him that felt there is
honour in being the first incumbent
president to lose an election in Nigeria.
Whatever the case; he failed to heed the
warning of many that, like Aminu
Tambuwal and Lamido Sanusi, Attahiru
Jega was working for the enemy.
Failure of Tinubu
With the coalition of Bola Tinubu’s ACN
and Buhari’s CPC, many concluded that
the outcome of the 2015 presidential
election would be determined in the
South-West. The assumption was that
Tinubu would provide the killer-punch
that had been missing in Buhari’s earlier
failed attempts. However, this has proved
to be mistaken. Tinubu failed to clean up
the South-West with his broom for the
APC. Indeed, in order for the APC to
prevail in Lagos with only 160,000 votes,
INEC had to ensure that many non-
indigenes could not get their PVCs.
The truth of the matter is that, quite
apart from the shenanigan of having a
Redeemed Yoruba pastor as Buhari’s vice-
presidential running-mate, the people of
the South-West don’t like Buhari. In the
2011 election, they said this emphatically
by giving him a paltry 321,000 votes out
of the 4.7 million cast in the geopolitical
zone. This time, in 2015, Buhari received
2.4 million South-West votes, with a
plurality of 600,000 over Jonathan.
However, most of those votes were
actually not for Buhari: they were against
Jonathan.
In the end, the South-West vote was
neither pivotal to Buhari’s victory nor
central to Jonathan’s defeat. Tinubu’s
assistance for Buhari ended at the APC
presidential primaries where he got
Buhari nominated against the wishes of
Northern delegates. All Tinubu did at the
level of the presidential election was to
give a façade of national spread to
Buhari’s essentially Northern victory. This
factor will soon come to haunt Tinubu and
his South-West cohorts when it is time to
share the spoils of victory in the Buhari
administration.
Should APC lose the Lagos governorship
election, Tinubu would be left in a
quandary. All the Northern timber and
caliber who were missing in action
throughout the campaign when Tinubu,
Fashola and other Southern politicians
were running helter-skelter with Buhari,
will soon come out of the woodwork to
claim their Buhari inheritance. Inevitably,
they will overshadow the Southern
brigade. Vice-President Osinbajo will
simply be sent to fetch water when
crucial decisions are to be made by
Northern “born-to-rule” elements.
Southerners without coattails
In order to defeat the PDP, APC needed
to undermine Jonathan in his areas of
greatest strengths – the South-South and
the South-East. However, APC men like
Amaechi, Okorocha and Oshiomhole
proved to be paper-tigers in these areas.
In Rivers, Amaechi was disgraced. With all
his bluster, he could only deliver 69,000
votes to Buhari; while Jonathan made off
with a whopping 1.45 million. No wonder,
therefore, that the governor tried to save
face by saying there was no election in
Rivers. He even rented a crowd to go on a
perfunctory demonstration.
Chinem Bestman sent me a text message
from Port Harcourt with the same
complaint that the election was rigged. I
answered by asking him if there has ever
been a free and fair election in Rivers
since 1999. Amaechi knew the ropes,
therefore when he came for accreditation,
he asked to see the election result sheet.
He knew the traditional rigmarole in
Rivers was to doctor the report sheet.
Now that he has been out-rigged, he is
singing a different tune; asking Rivers
people to forgive him.
In Imo, Okorocha was humiliated. He
could only deliver 19% of the vote to
Buhari. It looks like the governor is going
to need another job very soon as he is
unlikely to be re-elected. In Edo,
Oshiomhole did much better. APC lost
with 208,000 votes to PDP’s 286,000.
Nevertheless, Oshiomhole tried to
explain this away by complaining that PDP
used the military to manipulate the
election. However, when INEC announced
the results, APC won the senatorial
election in Edo North; one of the places
where the governor claimed PDP used
the military to rig.
Assault on the South-East
Godsday Orubebe grabbed the
microphone during the collation of the
election results and alleged to the whole
world that INEC chairman Attahiru Jega is
partial and tribalistic. His outburst may
have been embarrassing, but it is not
entirely without justification. The
evidence of INEC’s partiality is compelling.
Although President Jonathan put a call to
Orubebe to stop his protest, and he has
decided to accept the verdict of INEC, that
does not mean we should sweep INEC’s
shenanigans under the carpet.
It is easy to fob off Orubebe by saying he
was only being emotional because he is a
PDP man from Niger Delta, a kinsman of
Mr. President who “lost” the election.
That just won’t cut it. I am not a Niger
Deltan. I don’t belong in the PDP. I don’t
know Goodluck Jonathan and I have
never ever met him or spoken to him.
Cynical Nigerians believe anyone who
supports Jonathan must either be in his
pay or be looking for a job. Neither
allegation is applicable to me. Jonathan
ostensibly received 12.8 million votes;
surely all these people were neither in his
pay nor Aso Rock job-seekers.
My faith requires me to support the
weak. Therefore, I will always support the
minority against the tyranny of the
majority. We cannot be reliant on South-
South oil in Nigeria and then treat one of
their sons as if he is an impostor for being
president of the country. The fact of the
matter is that this presidential election
was the result of a vicious and malicious
gang-up of the majority ethnic groups
against the minorities.
Since the civil war, the Igbos of the
South-East have been treated as if they
are a minority ethnic group in Nigeria
when in fact they are one of the
majorities. In order to diminish Jonathan’s
votes, a major assault was made against
them; recognising that they are some of
the staunchest Jonathan supporters. In
2011, the Igbo gave Goodluck Jonathan a
decisive 5 million votes. The task of INEC
in 2015 was to ensure that did not recur.
INEC rigmarole
Buhari prevailed as a result of a
deliberate disenfranchisement of the Igbo
by INEC through the manipulation of PVC
distribution and the failure of the card
reader in the South-East and the South-
South. INEC ensured that, far more
disproportionately and relative to other
geopolitical zones, millions of South-East
voters disappeared between 2011 and
2015, in order to provide a smooth
passage for a Northern presidential
candidate; which turned out to be Buhari.
The first strategy of INEC in this regard
was to create 29,000 additional polling
units, allocating 21,000 of these to the
North and only 8,000 to the South. In
this crass manipulation, INEC gave more
additional polling units to Abuja than it
gave to the entire South-East. However,
widespread outcry over this proposal
forced INEC to jettison it despite
protracted resistance by Jega.
But INEC had a plan B: the registration of
voters and the collection of PVCs. This
was bogus and lopsided; skewed most
especially against the South-East where
only 7.6 million were registered and 5.6
million PVCs collected. Compare this with
the war-torn North-East: 9.1 million were
registered and 7.4 million collected. But
the most outrageous were the figures of
the North-West. 17.6 million registrations
and 15.1 million collections were
recorded in the North-West; much more
than the figures in the entire South-East
and South-South combined.
On Election Day, news of a bomb blast in
Enugu served to discourage people from
coming out to vote in the South-East. In
addition, there was widespread late voter
accreditation and voting in the South-East
as well as the South-South. One reason
for this was the massive failure of the
card-readers in these zones, highly
suggestive that they were programmed to
fail there.
Quite incredibly, the card-reader failed to
recognise even the president. It took
President Jonathan 35 minutes to get
accredited; but within five hours, we are
meant to believe that 2.5 million voters
in Kano were duly accredited. In the
middle of the election, INEC changed
from card-reader to manual accreditation.
This suddenly brought into play the huge
voter registrations in the North-West.
Cell-phone video recordings showed
many of the North-West’s bloated PVC
holders to be under-aged children.
Abracadabra
The total effect of these machinations is
that over 2.4 million South-East voters
were successfully disenfranchised. 38
million people nationwide voted for
Buhari and Jonathan in 2011. In 2015,
this figure shrank to 28 million. The votes
of the South-West remained virtually
constant. 4.6 million people of the South-
West voted in 2011: 4.2 million in 2015.
But compare this with what happened in
the South-East. 5 million people voted in
2011, only 2.6 million in 2015. That is a
drastic drop of 2.4 million.
While Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa and
Bauchi were posting their traditional
humongous figures; Imo, Anambra and
Abia were posting relatively disappointing
figures. Jigawa used to be a part of Kano,
when Kano was said to be bigger than
Lagos. In the 2015 election, the votes of
Jigawa and Kano combined was double
that of Lagos. Lagos had 1.4 million
votes. Jigawa and Kano had 3.1 million;
virtually all for Buhari.
While the internally displaced
Northerners in the North-East could vote,
internally displaced Igbos from the North
could not. In places like Lagos and Kano,
many non-indigenes were not even given
their PVCs. In effect, the innovation of
the Permanent Voters Cards is designed
to permanently disenfranchise the South.
If this is not redressed immediately, the
North will always determine the winner in
Nigerian elections.

senier007:
Like the current head of Army from the south that was given bolt light accelerated promotion after retiring more than 50 most senior officers just to serve GEJ, mind you badeh is course 25 and the man in question is course 24. Besides, they are is what they call promotion based on recommendation which is normal and sometimes if u have done a very good job the service may decide to motivate you with promotion as a means of appreciation.

what rank was badeh before ur claimed accelerated promotion

senier007:
Like the current head of Army from the south that was given bolt light accelerated promotion after retiring more than 50 most senior officers just to serve GEJ, mind you badeh is course 25 and the man in question is course 24. Besides, they are is what they call promotion based on recommendation which is normal and sometimes if u have done a very good job the service may decide to motivate you with promotion as a means of appreciation.

can u tell us minimah's rank before now?

PassingShot:
Please educate yourself http://leadership.ng/news/338760/jonathan-skips-31-generals-to-minimah

Jonathan skipped 31 Generals to appoint Minimah.

Did that article suggest that his seniors where still in the service? Was minimah given accelerated promotion? The norm has always been that the seniors get retired, not giving a junior officer accelerated promotion, like they did to ribadu; and now mani

sweetgala:
Forger that, he would not be chosen if be was not fit for the job. And he has been with Buhari since 2011 , 4 years I'm sure he deserves a promotion for a job well done. The old man is still alive after assassination attempts

My point is: why give accelerated promotion when you can simply retire his seniors? This was how ribadu was promoted without recourse to due process.

PassingShot:
Did you know that Kenneth Minimah was promoted over and above many senior officers to be made Chief of Army Staff?

No. That's not true.

Manni given accelerated promotion? This is what the north has been doing in nigeria since independence. where there no senior officers of northern extract in the dss? was gej cso a southerner?

double0seven:
I have not seen or heard of any. please do post the link if you know what you are saying.

goto youtube and type " nigeria election rigged"

double0seven:
because in those states, the results were going online as they were being concluded in individual polling booths. the results from individual polling booths were already in the public domain of the social media before the collation by INEC. The results were declared at polling booths and pasted.

But what happened in Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta etc., there was in fact a total blackout of results from the SE and SS. All over the nation people were wondering what was happening?

Specifically in Akwa Ibom, Rivers, and Delta, we didn't see the beginning and middle of the election process, we only saw the end. It was not so in the entire North and South West .

There are videos on youtube showing how election was conducted in most northern states, showing how ballot boxes were stuffed. So what online results are u talking about?

There are videos on youtube showing how elections were rigged in all the core northern states, yet gej still concede defeat. Gej u are the true definition of a stateman.
For some who think buhari won a credible election; keep deluding urselve. We are not even surprise at the level of ur reasoning because for u, buhari is coming to stabilise oil price, pay u N5,000, make a naira equals a dollar in value,etc. Keep the believe o ye broom people.

That's ur ugly opinion madam chibok. Is she not going to ask buhari's govt to produce the chibok girls? or was it a scam? u are trying hard to remain relevant madam

typical of apc, i'm not surprise.

The next one will be: " we did not promise to make one naira equal the value of a dollar! sai change! hahaja

Eyaah benue

deletrue:
God will asking himself what kind of people are these Nigerians? One, most time, wonders the stuff that makes up Nigerians. Buhari's party consist of more of the corrupt people yet they keep, because GEJ has been voted into out through the same crookish methods, different stories every where. By the end of Buhari, more stories will emerge about this certificate. Buhari had all the opportunities to tell Nigerians about his certificate, he could not because he had no certificate. Surprisingly, this certificate is with the army now. Nigeria has become ''the more you look, the more the confusion increases.

Bro it's sad and i'm not surprise that liers have taken over govt. A tweet from one riff raff that the army has seen buhar's certificate is enough to make these deluded fellows happy and wish it is true. Let the army come out to announce that they have seen buhari's certificate; or abi na nepa bill them see?