Buhari Certificate Saga: Judge Adjourns Suit Indefinitely
President Muhammadu Buhari[/caption]
The saga over the possession or otherwise of a school certificate by President Muhammadu Buhari turned comical on Thursday as Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, adjourned the matter indefinitely.
Ruling on the suit, Justice Adeniyi said that the case was being adjourned indefinitely, following a notice of appeal filed by the president.
An Abuja-based lawyer, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe, had gone to court challenging the president’s qualification to hold office having not satisfied the constitutional requirement of possessing a school certificate as he claimed.
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The kernel of Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe’s suit is that Buhari did not sit for the Cambridge West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1961
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Buhari had engaged 13 SANs including Wole Olanipekun (SAN), Lateef O. Fagbemi (SAN), Akin Olujinmi (SAN), Oluwarotimi O. Akeredolu (SAN), Kola Awodein (SAN), Taiwo Osipitan (SAN).
Others are Charles Edosomwan (SAN), Emeka Ngige (SAN), Femi Atoyebi (SAN), Femi Falana (SAN), Funke Aboyade (SAN), H.O. Afolabi and 10 other counsels.
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With the ruling, speculations will build even further if actually the president indeed sat for the exams as he claimed.
It would be recalled that during the 2015 election, President Buhari had wrote to INEC saying that his secondary school certificate was with the military board, but the military board claimed it did not have the document in its possession.
