Chairman
of the defunct Presidential Screening Committee of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has said that the party’s presidential
candidate, General Mohammadu Buhari was cleared for primary election strictly
on the provisions of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
Besides,
he said that the affidavit produced by Buhari during the screening exercise
provided every conviction needed to clear him.
Onu
also added that the person of Buhari who had hitherto attended many military
institutions both at home and abroad before rising to the pinnacle of his
career in the Nigeria Army could not have done so without passing his
examinations at primary and secondary school levels.
He
wondered why the certificate has suddenly been made an issue even when Buhari
had contested previous elections without hitches.
He
said: “Really that issue shouldn’t create the kind of problem that we are
seeing today in the polity. When this matter came before us in the presidential
screening committee, we had to rely on the constitution of our great country to
qualify anybody to be president of Nigeria.
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