The last has definitely not been heard on President Muhammadu Buhari’s academic qualification controversy.
The controversy, as a matter of fact, assumed another dimension yesterday when Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Buhari’s campaign spokesman stated that a WAEC certificate isn’t a must for occupying the No. 1 position.
Firing back, via a statement released and signed by their spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan: ‘The PDP says it is incompletely unacceptable for President Buhari to swear to an affidavit to claim the educational qualification he does not possess.
‘An attempt to deceive the public using a defective reading and skewed interpretation of a section of the constitution cannot exonerate President Buhari.
‘Moreover, Section 295 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is very clear on issues of interpretations and reference to questions of law.
‘The PDP, therefore, maintains that the onus is on President Buhari, as ‘Mr. Integrity’ to tender the certificate he claims to possess before the tribunal instead of this lame diversion from Presidential aide…’