Certificate Saga: Buhari Has Something To Hide Morally Burdened – PDP

BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday declared that the fretting and jittering in the Presidency whenever the issue of the academic certificate of President Muhammadu Buhari is mentioned, confirms the assertions by Nigerians that Mr. President is morally burdened and ostensibly has something to hide.

The PDP, in response to a statement credited to the Buhari Presidency alleging that those raising the certificate issue are sowing seeds of discord, insists that President Buhari’s handlers should do the needful by placing the certificate in public domain instead of confronting and threatening Nigerians for demanding that Mr. President shows his certificate.

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said the Buhari Presidency should know that their threats and confrontation cannot take away the fact that their principal’s certificate issue requires a personal responsibility, stressing that the President cannot wish away this responsibility as he had always done on official matters.

Ologbondiyan further said; “If Mr. President has nothing to hide, he should end the confrontations by his presidency and show integrity by writing the military authorities to make public the said certificate.

“In failing to do so, Mr. President is opening himself to public opprobrium particularly as millions of Nigerian youths see such as grossly undesirable of a leader, expected to set examples.   

“Moreover, President Buhari should know that Nigerians are aware that he is not the only retired military officer to aspire for elective office in the country and none of them brought the claims of their certificates being held by the military,” Ologbondiyan enthused.    

The PDP said it therefore, holds that Buhari must show Nigerians his claimed school certificate upon which his nomination as a candidate is based.

“If he does not have this credential, he should make such declaration and stop the nebulous claim that his credentials are with the military,” the PDP so declared.