We Will Investigate Buhari’s Certificate – PDP

A top party official of The Peoples Democratic Party has allegedly made claims to contest the authenticity of All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari academic results as it is not satisfied with the credentials tendered.

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The party official who spoke with Saturday PUNCH on Thursday, said the ruling party would investigate Buhari's statement of results issued on Wednesday by the Katsina State Ministry of Education.

In the result sheet, Buhari's name was the second among the 17 candidates that sat for the Cambridge/ West African School Certificate Examination in 1961.

But the party source who wanted to be anonymous, said, "The plan of the PDP is to contest Buhari's academic qualification on two fronts.

"We will first contest the APC presidential candidate's credentials by writing to all the institutions he attended for the verification of his certificates. We already have individuals in our party that are doing that.

"On the other hand, the ruling party will prevail on the Ministry of Justice to sue the former head of state for perjury."

The party official said Buhari had, in the affidavit submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, claimed that his certificates were with the military, but the Nigerian Army denied that it had the ex-head of state's certificates in its custody.

"This means he (Buhari) lied on oath when he said his credentials were with the army. We are not going to take this from him at all. It is the job of the Ministry of Justice to look into this case of perjury and we are going to remind them."

Various outlets have contested the authenticity of the certificate tendered by Buhari.