₦airaland Forum

Jesusloveyou:
which certificate are u stil looking for again,animal,because illiterate is better than an animal,that is why u what lecturer of animal to be ur president.

double0seven:
your comment shows that you are actually the illiterate. The constitution requirement you quoted actually shows that nothing is wrong; that everything is intact as concerns the qualification of GMB to stand for presidential elections.

YoungIncredible:
Guys how far?. Se the old man don show his certificates?. Abi na nepa bill he present?. I no get access to television here abeg

otokx:
Kindly update us here.

EgusiSoup:
Guys the interview has started at exactly 10:AM. I am watching it LIVE.

Please tune in to..

Jesusloveyou:
just listen to urself, ok u like literate in zoo,beside buhari is literate in security not in hausa,or u also mean gej is literate in ijaw.buhari till u reason well.

Trailblazer1:
I'm sure you are jobless.

Prove me wrong

If your are gainfully employed, did you present pure water nylon or tissue paper to your employer?

MadCow1:
4 plots of land with C - of -O.










Not for sale..

omonnakoda:
There should be no argument really but in this case WHO HAS THE POWER TO ASK.

THE CONSTITUTION IS CLEAR and CAN BE READ HERE


http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#InterpretationCitationAndCommencement

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;


What this means is INEC alone has the Power to determine whether BUHARI's qualifiications are "ACCEPTABLE"


NOT EVEN THE COURTS HAVE A SAY ONCE INEC SAYS "ACCEPTABLE"

Adminisher:
Illiteracy is the inability to read and write in a particular language. So you and millions of other half educated Nigerians have been using the word wrongly. Intellectually lazy supporters of the most questionable PhD certificate holder President in history. So Buhari is not illiterate.
Let me also continue your education since it is obviously very poor. Illiteracy in a language is better than lack of education and these two are better than lack of ability to reason (intellectual ability) which most of you don't have.

olaboy001:
Certificate is the evidence of literate?
Come and see girls with masters that doesn't know how to operate computer

Adminisher:
Ok so some education is necessary for you. The word ILLITERATE is mostly abused by people like you because you are all half educated. The Nigerian educational system has been going down since the seventies and graduates cannot even write a simple letter without mistakes anymore. So what is the meaning of the word illiterate? Tell me whether using that word in this context is even correct. In a country where a PhD holder President goes on the state box to campaign speaking very poor English and making childish arguments it is not surprising that his supporters are mostly like him.

genearts:
So d principal forged the result abi

Adminisher:
The elections are just beginning and Jonathan has lost. The constitution says the man is qualified. The man joined the army after basic education he did not need an actual certificate to join the army in the sixties. A testimonial and recommendation letter sufficed. He was not going on to become a clerk. The recommendation letter itself was not even written by a Nigerian so let us get that straight. Also this period was long before the period of QUOTA system whch was what a lot of half educated young Jonathan supporters don't even know. Quota system as government policy to encourage all tribes representation in government institutions started in the seventies and old Rivers State and even cross rivers state were some of the beneficiaries. The people who used to complain most about quota system were SW.

midolian:
don't blame him. He z naive

genearts:
The letter read to u by d army is from where??

AJOT99:
Keep visiting

oladele97:
Isn't pidgin u use to reply,.....clown like u

olaboy001:
Do you know how many people fire/water have destroyed their certificate? Why did you think there is affidavit?

olaboy001:
Even if he show the certificate, you guys will still ask for something else again.

oladele97:
I think with this we should be certisfy that is qualify

tosin2013:
Id.oits. most of those tanoids screaming "certificate" are indeed id.iots!

I wish the case had gone to court, it would have been thrown out at the first hearing.!

olaboy001:
Do you guys still insist on seeing the certificate?

By Kingsley Omonobi
ABUJA—As controversy continues to trail the academic qualifications of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major General Mohammadu Buhari, the Army, yesterday, said it was not in possession of Buhari’s credentials.
The APC presidential candidate, Major General Buhari had averred in an affidavit he deposed before an Abuja High Court that all his certificates were with the Secretary, Military Board, while submitting his Form 199A to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
But the Army, yesterday, denied being in possession of the APC candidate’s original certificates or the certified true copies.
The outgoing Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General Olajide Laleye, who addressed newsmen in Abuja, said: “The Nigerian Army does not have the original copy of his (Buhari) West African Examinations Council, WAEC result or a certified true copy.”
But the APC in a swift reaction has warned that those who are bent on destroying Buhari on the basis of his certificates may end up destroying the country’s military.
The army spokesman told newsmen that what the army had and which he displayed were the information contained in the forms Buhari filled at the point of his entry into the military and some letters of recommendation by Principal of Provincial Secondary School, Katsina.
For the record
Olajide said: “Records available indicate that Major General Muhammadu Buhari applied to join the military as a Form Six student of the Provincial Secondary School, Katsina on October 18, 1961. His application was duly endorsed by the Principal of the school, who also wrote a report on him and recommended him suitable for military commission.”
The report which was shown to newsmen, read: “I recommend Muhammadu Buhari fit for military commission.”
[size=14pt]On Buhari’s result, the Principal also wrote, “I consider that he will pass Maths, English and three other subjects.”[/size]
Laleye said the briefing was necessitated by deluge of requests from civil society groups and the media among others, over General Buhari’s eligibility for any political office.
He said: “It is a practice in the Nigerian Army that before candidates are short-listed for commissioning into the officers’ cadre of the service, the selection board verifies the original copies of credentials that are presented.
“However, there is no available record to show that this process was followed in the 60s. Nevertheless, the entry made on the Nigerian Army Form 199A at the point of documentation after commission as an officer indicated that the former head of state obtained the West African School Certificate, WASC, in 1961 with credits in relevant subjects: English Language, Geography, History, Health Science, Hausa and a pass in English Literature.
“Neither the original copy, Certified True Copy, CTC, nor statement of result of Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s WASC result is in his personal file. What I have said here is what is contained in his service records’ personal file. We have not added or subtracted anything.”

Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Olajide Laleye during the briefing
by the Nigerian Army In Abuja, yesterday.
Earlier, Brig-General Laleye, said: “Let me state clearly that the Nigerian Army holds the retired senior officer in very high esteem and respect and would not be a party to any controversy surrounding his eligibility for any political office. Suffice it to state that Major General Buhari rose steadily to the enviable rank of Major General before becoming head of state of our dear country in December 1983.”
It’s a dangerous game — APC
The APC in a statement issued in Lagos, yesterday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, warned that the PDP and the Jonathan administration are playing a dangerous game by allegedly trying to compromise the military in order to satisfy selfish political objectives, and urged the military, as a symbol of national unity, to beware of those who may be seeking to use it to achieve selfish and divisive ends.
The APC said the statement credited to the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig-Gen. Olajide Olaleye, at a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, that the Army is not in possession of Gen. Buhari’s certificates, is in direct conflict with what he said on January 4, 2015 on the same issue.
“In an interview with the Punch on Jan. 4, 2015, Brig.-Gen. Olaleye had said: ‘Every serving and retired Army officer has at least a copy of his certificates and credentials kept in the Nigerian Army while that same serving and retired officer has copies of those same certificates and credentials’.
“Is Brig.-Gen. Olaleye now saying that he did not make that statement? If he did, what has happened between then and now to make him to recant? It will be interesting to know what has transpired between then and now,” APC said.
The party also said that there was no evidence that the certificates of all those who joined the army in the early 1960s were verified by the selection board.
“Is he now saying that all those who were commissioned into the officer cadres in the 1960s did not have their certificates verified? Does this not confirm what we said that in trying to destroy Gen. Buhari, the PDP and the Jonathan administration will end up destroying the army as an institution? Or is it only Gen. Buhari that was commissioned into the army in the 1960s?”
The party also quoted Gen. Buhari as saying in an affidavit on November 24, 2014 that “All my academic qualification documents as filled in my presidential form, President APC/001/2015 are currently with the Secretary, Military Board as at the time of this affidavit.”
APC said: “Those who are behind the latest controversy should now tell Nigerians what happened to Gen. Buhari’s certificates between the time of his affidavit and now”.
APC said further that even if the Army now says it does not have the certificates of Gen. Buhari, he is still very qualified to run for the country’s highest office, as stipulated by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
What the constitution says— APC
The party quoted Section 131 (d) of the 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”.
APC said the meaning and interpretation of “School Certificate level or its equivalent can be found in the Constitution under part IV, Section 318. In that Section, a “School Certificate or its equivalent” is defined quite succinctly thus:
(a) A Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent, Grade II Teacher’s Certificate, the City and Guilds Certificate; or
(b) Education up to Secondary School Certificate Level; or a
(c) Primary Six School Leaving Certificate or its equivalent.
The party said since Brig.-Gen. Olaleye has confirmed that Gen. Buhari indeed applied to join the Army from form six, that the principal of the school he attended even attested to his suitability, and that the form he filled contained his Secondary School Certificate results, there is no scintilla of doubt about his qualification to run for president as stipulated by the Constitution.
“However, we know that the PDP and the Jonathan administration have constituted themselves into a court of law and will like nothing more than the disqualification of our candidate so they will face no challenge in next month’s election. This is wishful thinking,” it said.
APC said the PDP and the Jonathan administration should expend their energy on how to revive their floundering campaign instead of seeking the disqualification of its (APC) candidate.
On the contradictions in the statements credited to the Army spokesman, the party said: “It is true that our once globally-respected military has now been made comatose by the PDP-led Federal Government, but we believe things have not reached the level where the same military will be engaging in actions that amount to self destruction just to satisfy some political interests.
“We believe things have not reached a level where we, as a nation, will now be giving the impression that a man who rose to become a Major-General in the Nigerian Army does not have requisite qualifications?
“What really is happening in our country if some politicians have now decided to engage in an action that will amount to dragging the military into politics, dividing an institution that is a symbol of national unity, trivializing the service of those who fought to keep Nigeria one and ridiculing the same country it is supposed to be ruling?
‘’We have said it before and will like to repeat: Enough is enough about this distraction”.