PDP Accuses Buhari Of Perjury, Advises Withdraw From Presidential Race

The ruling Peoples

Democratic Party in

Nigeria has accused

the presidential

candidate of the

opposition, All

Progressives Congress

(APC), retired General

Muhammadu Buhari,

of lying on oath and

asked him to apologise to Nigerians and withdraw from the presidential race.

The spokesman

for the PDP

Presidential

Campaign

Organisation,

Femi Fani-

Kayode, told

reporters in Abuja on Wednesday that it was clear that the claim by retired

General Muhammadu Buhari that his credentials were with the army was

false.

Mr Fani-Kayode also accused the APC of violating the peace accord recently

signed to ensure violence free elections.

He said supporters of the APC attacked the presidential convoy of the PDP in

Katsina, the state of the opposition party’s presidential candidate.

The PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation had requested that General

Buhari should submit his credentials to the electoral body as stipulated in the

Nigerian Constitution.

General Buhari, who is contesting for the fourth time in a president race,

insisted that his credentials should not be an issue the PDP should focus on.

Speaking to journalists at the Africa House, beside the Kano State Government

House in the State capital, the Katsina-born politician named late Gen Shehu

Musa Yar’adua and a former President of the Court of Appeal, Mr Umar

Abdullahi, as his classmates.

He, however, failed to tender his certificate but noted that the school he

attended, the Provincial Secondary School, now known as Government College,

Katsina, will make available a copy of the Cambridge West African School

Certificate, which would be made available to the press.

General Buhari said he wrote the examination with number 8200002 in the

Second Division.

He, however, said: “Although the ruling party may want to wish this away, the

issue in this campaign cannot be my certificate which I obtained 53 years ago.

The issues are the scandalous level of unemployment of our young people, the

state of insecurity, the pervasive official corruption which has impoverished our

people and the lack of concern of the government of anything other than the

retention of power at all costs”.

After General Buhari’s response, copies of his credentials were made public on

Wednesday by the Government College Katsina, formerly Provincial Secondary

School, Katsina.

The secondary school certificate examination results showed that General

Buhari graduated from the school in 1961.

The APC had insisted that their presidential candidate was qualified and asked

the PDP to focus on issues rather than the person of General Buhari.

A spokesman for party, Mr Lai Mohammed had told Channels Television that

the credential controversy was a preposterous request that could destroy the

image of the military institution.

But Mr Fani-Kayode had insisted that part of the issues the PDP would focus

on in efforts to retain power in the centre in the February 14 poll would be

General Buhari.

It is less than 26 days to the Presidential election and the political parties

have intensified campaigns across the nation, wooing voters.