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President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team has asked for the disqualification of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, from next month’s election.

In an address by its spokesperson, Femi Fani-Kayode, the campaign team also accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of deliberately allowing Mr. Buhari to contest the February 14 election even after he has ‘failed’ to meet the basic educational qualification required to run.

Mr. Fani-Kayode, who addressed a press conference on Saturday in Abuja, said the inability of Mr. Buhari to present the minimum requirement of a school leaving certificate questions his morals and other credentials for pursuing the position of the president of Nigeria.
Mr. Buhari’s academic qualification generated controversy recently after it emerged he submitted a sworn affidavit at a Federal High Court, FCT, High Court Abuja to the effect that all his academic qualifications were with the Secretary of the Military Board.
His party, the APC, through its spokesperson, Lai Mohammed, said Mr. Buhari lost original copies of his credentials when his house was raided while he was in detention; and that he had been using court affidavits since then.

“General Muhammadu Buhari was in detention for over three years; while in detention, captors raided his residence and vandalised his property including certificates and diplomas; and that consequently, after his release, whenever the General is asked about his academic qualifications, he would refer such bodies to the Military Command, who has his service records including his academic certificates,” Mr. Mohammed said in a chat with Leadership Newspaper last weekend.

He also said Mr. Buhari had taken the same procedure for the 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections in which he was a candidate.
Mr. Jonathan’s campaign team, however, said it is not satisfied.

“Academic qualification is a threshold issue that cannot be waived for any citizen no matter how highly-placed and irrespective of whichever region such individual comes from except as provided by the constitution,” Mr. Fani-Kayode said.
The former minister cited Section 131 of the Nigerian constitution which states that: “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.”
Mr. Fani-Kayode said section 131 (d) is a specific directional order for all candidates to show proof of education up to a minimum standard not below school certificate or its equivalent.

“But from what INEC has published, Buhari has not submitted any personal particular of minimum school leaving certificate for the 2015 election and, shockingly, from INEC documents displayed in all constituencies, he also did not submit anything in 2011 and never referred the electoral umpire then to the Secretary of the Military Board as well as previous elections he contested as evidenced in all available INEC records until this current discovery.

“If the constitution did not require proof, it would not specify a minimum,” he said.

Electoral Act

The former Minister of Aviation added that the current Electoral Act directs that proof of educational qualification must be sworn to by each candidate at a Court under Section 31 (ii) to (v).
He noted that for elections to the office of the president and for the purpose of display of particulars of candidates for all presidential elections, the entire country is taken as one constituency.

“Nigerians that have perused the affidavit of nomination as submitted by General Buhari and as published in all INEC offices, as well as the copies of his similar INEC documentations for 2011 election, could see clearly that General Buhari who claims to be a man of integrity has not been true to Nigerians.

“It can be seen, as indicated in section 31(6), that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a false deponent was declared in the affidavit where it indicates that all documents relating to the personal particulars of General Buhari are with the Secretary of the Military Board,” he said.

He said in the form he filled for the 2015 election, Mr. Buhari referred INEC to the Military Board for copies of his educational qualification, even after Section C of the form states that candidates should “attach evidence of all educational qualifications.”
He also said it was curious that Mr. Buhari did not refer INEC to the military board in 2011.

Mr. Fani-Kayode said the military board like any other body does not keep or retain original copies of personal particulars of individuals such as birth certificates, passports, and academic credentials of any personnel, especially retired personnel after over 3 decades.
“It must be stated that INEC erred in law by publishing the name of a candidate without receiving the personal particulars of the candidate within 7 days of receiving his nomination forms as indicated in section 31(3),” he said.
“This is indeed a tragedy illustrating what Nigeria has become, that an individual is so powerful that the law has to be ignored to accommodate him.

“Certainly, INEC printed nomination forms or High Court affidavits are, in no way or by any stretch of definitions, the same as personal particulars such as school leaving certificate.”
The former aviation minister said the Jonathan campaign is convinced that Mr. Buhari “is not qualified to contest the 2015 presidential election.”

Raiders:
Another empty promise by Mr president. you couldn't even provide 1 thousand jobs in the 6 yrs of your presidency. your government was responsible for the Immigration scam job interview that lead to the lost of lives. GEJ till May 2015.

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President Goodluck Jonathan has promised two million jobs yearly if re-elected into office.
Mr. Jonathan spoke Monday in Ibadan, Oyo State, were he met supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the February 14 election.

The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, quoted the president as saying he will generate jobs for the teeming unemployed population in Nigeria.
He did not say how that will happen, after largely failing to provide as many jobs in the last six years as president.
Besides corruption and insecurity, the Jonathan administration is persistently criticised over the huge unemployed population in the country.
The government has always pointed to its Small and Medium Scale support programme, Youwin, which gives grants to only 1,200 people yearly.

The government says the programme has engaged hundreds of thousands, a figure that has been questioned.
The government has also failed to defend its claim that it created 1.6 million jobs in 2013.
At the Ibadan campaign, Mr. Jonathan also lauded South-West leaders for promoting equity, human rights, saying he will continue to respect and work with people from the zone.
The president also said the votes of Nigerian women will either liberate or sanction them to the kitchen, urging women to vote for PDP.

chukwudi44:
See this mumu Yoruba man forming igbo

elantraceey:
please point out a place in the op that's contrary to my post

elantraceey:
Oh what do you expect?

She should happily give her child to a man that rejectted her?

ladyconfessor:
To all the virgins in the house
I was so full of life, quitting relationships anyhow even when i knew that the guy loves me.
I never experienced deceit, Betrayal, pretense in ma relationship.

Samabu07:
When you get your Africard, turn to the back of the card, look out for a client identification 10 digits at the right end of the card.
Always use the 10 digits to fill a teller bank account number and your name. Ensure you fund your card before 4pm on any day you choose to.
NB: The customer care rep should breeze you through it though.
Happy Online Shopping.

EmmanuelD1st:
You can fund the card just the way you make a deposit into a bank account in the banking hall, the only difference is that you write down the client identification number which at the back of the card on the boxes provided for acct. Number on the deposit slip. After completely filling the deposit slip which include the amount you want to fund the card with to writing the name on the card onto the slip etc. take the slip and the card to the cashier, tell him/her that you want to fund the card. That's all...Upon receiving the card you are still going to be told how to fund, activate for both atm and online transactions.

dechandel:
That number 5 can be very annoying
I always do it whenever i want someone to disappear off my list

jingh:
For every debatives topic on nairaland, there is a counter thread !
jingh law

manmade:
Mitcheewww. So this is what u invited me to come and read? I thought the messages contain the old man confessions on how he forged his secondary school certificate to enlist in the military.

clevadani:
I didn't rili like dis man. But my hatred for pdp has gradually increased over d years. But after looking at his past records nd achievements, I came to d conclusion dat it can only be buhari and nobody else. The corrupt cabals(ie pdp cabal,generator cabal,subsidy cabal,pension cabal,militants) know what he can do and they will do all dey can to stop him from becoming president. I know APC detractors are saying that he is too old,that a younger candidate is needed but we know dat any oda person we put in dere is going to be consumed by d system. The only person capable of doing it is Buhari
Besides it is time to let politicians especially dat dey do not own Nigeria and we would not condone incompetence.

herald9:
Iffah hear say na him write those things...

And which government is he talking about? If he was that good why was he kicked out after two years in office?
Abeg spare me that ethnic and religious thrash... You run with pastors just to get votes from the other major religion,we know what your dubious mind is capable of doing...

And remind me to come read all these tweets when you've gotten your certificates.

laimo:
Wow, I love Buhari.

#ThingsMustChange.