Buhari Certificate Saga:Speak Out Now,Rights Group Urges NBA,NLC,NMA,ASUU,Others

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As well meaning Nigerians are still reacting and commenting on the

controversy surrounding the basic requirement certificate(SSCE) to vie

for the office of the President of the Presidential candidate of the

All Progressives Congress(APC),General Muhammadu Buhari,a human rights

group in Nigeria, the Centre for Human Rights and Social

Justice(CHRSJ) has called on the Professional and Trade Union groups

such as Nigeria Bar Association(NBA),Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC)

,Nigeria Medical Association(NMA),Academic Staff Union of

University(ASUU) and host of others as well as the human rights

community in the country to speak out on the issue of Buhari

certificate saga which is endangering the political landscape as the

Country is moving towards electing the next President on February

14,2015,stressing that the issue has been given a great stigma to the

country in the comity of nations of the world.
The group also stated that the silence of these groups over the matter

of national importance of this nature were tantamount to acceptability

of the Statement of Result as fake and General Buhari was not

qualified to present himself for the office of the President because

he(Buhari) failed to meet up with the required of Laws of the land.

They further said that the groups have been in forefront of the

agitation to return back of Nigeria to democracy and they should not

allow ex-military leaders who made democracy to be difficult to

truncate the current nurturing democracy in Nigeria,adding that they

have also made their position known on the postponement of the 2015

general elections.
Speaking through a Statement issued and signed by the Centre's

Executive Chairman,Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman ,which a copy was

made available to newsmen in Lagos yesterday,strongly condemned the

silence of the groups when they were to speak truth on the issue as

major stakeholders in the polity of the county,quoting late Chief Gani

Fawehinmi who told his disciples to “stand up for what is

right,even,if they are standing alone”.
Comrade Sulaiman who doubles as Convener,Save Lagos Group(SLG),thrown

the groups' weight behind the case instituted by a Nigerian

Lawyer,Barrister Chike Okafor that the Federal High Court should

disqualify General Buhari from contesting the 2015 presidential

election,saying that once General Buhari has failed to meet up with

the basic requirement law in filling CF001 form submitted to the

Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) which requested a

candidate to attach his or her credential to the form,Buhari should

not waste the precious time of Nigerians by withdrawing himself from

the Presidential race.
CHRSJ boss who advised the APC leaders in the country to tell its

Presidential candidate,General Muhammadu Buhari(rtd) to write the

University of Cambridge which conducted the Buhari claimed Senior

Secondary School Examination in 1961,insisting that General Buhari was

not qualified to contest the Presidential election until he provided

the photocopy of authentic certificate to electoral body as being

required by Law of the land.
It would be recalled that the Okafor's case is suit No.

FHC/ABJ/CS/01/2015.It is based on section 131 of the Constitution,

which prescribes a minimum qualification for nomination to participate

in presidential election and section 31 of the Electoral Act that

stipulates all presidential candidates to depose an affidavit in proof

of compliance with constitutional requirement to be President of

Nigeria.
The claimant further claimed that General Buhari failed to prove that

he had the minimum educational qualification to contest for the

election. The claimant further claimed that General Buhari's affidavit

certifying his West African School Leaving Certificate (WASC) is

false, and also claims that the certificates in the custody of the

military had been denied by the Director of Army Public Relations,

Brigadier General Olajide Laleye.
Signed By
Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman
Executive Chairman,
Centre for Human rights and Social Justice(CHRSJ)/
Convener,Save Lagos Group(SLG)
08038591504,08022697573
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