Buhari’s WAEC Certificate: PDP Gives Lai Mohammed A Stunning Reply

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Sunday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to toe the path of honour by vacating the presidential seat, stressing that appeal to peoples’ emotions on his certificate would not rescue him from the Presidential Tribunal verdict. 

PDP’s reaction was sequel to the statement issued by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed in which he referenced a 2015 television interview where he said that it was not unreasonable for Buhari not to know where his WAEC certificate was after fifty years.

That interview conducted in 2015 was recently viral on social media.

In a statement signed by PDP’s  spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party lambasted the presidency for creating awareness on the video where Lai Muhammad pleaded with Nigerians to pardon President Buhari over his certificate claims.

Part of the statement reads: 

“Our party mocks the Buhari Presidency for pushing out the video wherein the Minister pleaded with Nigerians to pardon President Buhari over his false WAEC certificate claims.

“We note the deliberate ploy of Alhaji Lai Mohammed to appeal to sentiments, seeing that Mr. President had failed to defend himself before the Presidential petition tribunal.

“The party berated the Buhari Presidency for “believing that in pushing the video into the public space, it could influence the mind of the tribunal to bend the law after solid evidence have been presented before it against President Buhari.

“PDP holds that the pronouncement and appeal for pardon issued by the government’s spokesperson, who is also a lawyer, is a direct guilt plea, which cannot save President Buhari from the course of justice in this

matter.

“From the official pronouncement by the Minister on a national television, it is no longer in dispute before all Nigerians that President Buhari does not possess the educational certificate he claimed in the affidavit he deposed to in his Presidential nomination form.

“In this latest shenanigan, President Buhari and his handlers ought to have known that the law, which the judiciary is bound to uphold, is a respecter of no man.

 “Presidency vehemently applied the law in similar circumstance to remove a head of an arm of government; a situation, which renders his plea for pardon a complete nullity before the law.

“PDP holds that if President Buhari indeed seeks for pardon from Nigerians, he should do the needful by toeing the path of honour and vacating the Presidential seat without further delay.

“It is disheartening that President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) would put our nation through the troubles of legal hassles when they knew all the while that they were building something

on nothing. Consider the evidence before it and rescue our nation by expediting its verdict to point to nothing other than the justice of the matter in the Presidential election petition.”

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