Buhari’s Certificate Saga Is A Dead Issue – Presidency
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The presidency on Sunday declared that the controversy over the certificates of President Muhammadu Buhari is a dead issue only being resurrected by idle minds.
Buhari in a sworn affidavit he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) along with his form as the presidential candidate of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 presidential election, said his certificates are with the Nigerian Army.
Reacting to the issue, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina said the matter has long been laid to rest and now a dead issue, adding that those still talking about it are idle.
Adesina pointedly said; “It is something that had been laid to rest before the 2015 general elections. Those raising the issue (PDP and others) are idle and they have run out of ideas. They see defeat staring them in the face and they are desperate to cling to any straw. This issue was resolved before the 2015 election.
“It is a matter of fact that when President Buhari and others joined the military, they took their original certificates from them. The military knew where they kept the original certificates of the president.
“In fact, a former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Alani Akinrinade, corroborated that the military collected the original certificates of all its officers. The PDP believes it is going to lose the elections, and they will lose, and it is raising dust over a dead issue.
“The military already said they lost the certificates. But does it mean that it did not exist that the president went to school, sat for examinations and passed; attended military courses and War College?
“It does not change the fact that the president rose through the ranks to become a Major-General in the Nigerian Army and a Military Head of State.
“Didn’t those opposed to President Buhari go to court over his certificate and lost before? They will still lose this time around. It is a dead issue,” Adesina enthused.
