My dear Neb:
Your
candidate's camp can deep six what has become no small source of
amusement to watchers of African follies. This is not to
say a candidate has no sense or more sense; it is an issue of
compliance. As a learned person, you will admit that your guy's team
has to come up with a precise answer since the constitution, which
he aspires to swear that he will uphold, requires a minimum certificate
as evidence of having passed a standardized, secondary school terminal
exam. It has to do with content and performance
standards.
At his
disposal, Buhari has means to prove that when he could have been in secondary
school in Nigeria, he did, took the terminal exam that
was administered in the day and was a successful student. It
is very simple. If he did not attain a secondary school certificate, a
more complicated explanation or alternative assessment can still be broken
down for the polity. There is no need for APC to try to obscure the saliency
of the point with digressionary questions like: Ebele on a Political
Prowl? Well, Ebele is not the author that section of the
constitution.
Yes, you are right. The INEC accepts
sworn affidavits to the effect that the candidate meets the requirement.
It is not the job of the INEC to pick quarrel and disqualify a candidate who
does not bring the physical certificate. However, when a formal
objection is raised, the INEC will have to send the matter to the party to
address/redress. It cannot stick to the challenged affidavit.
If Buhari does not have the
minimum certificate, entry to the Nigerian military may not have required a
secondary education or it was waived for some. There is no supernatural
explanation. The INEC does not have the same powers to waive the
qualification for a civilian, public office by military reasoning. Therein
lies the problem. It is the onus of the Buhari campaign to produce
evidence of an equivalent secondary school certificate or more.
Training that does not require any
academic prerequisite or qualification may not meet the letter of the
law. For example, if the Nigerian military sends its officers for a specific
course, the receiving institution will not be asking how the
people qualified as brigadiers and other soldierly titles in their own
countries in the first place. In that short stay, the soldiers do
not follow a regular college curriculum. Just like professional
enhancements, one has to qualify for the profession. Whatever on-going
training is not a substitute for the minimum qualification to obtain the
position. While at it, one may even learn new trade.
Someone mentioned that Buhari went
to the same program with the retired four star general in the US Army, former
National Security Advisor, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
former US Secretary of State Colin Powell. This
even strengthens the argument against Buhari's contention.
Powell graduated from high school in Bronx, NY; received a BS degree in geology from
the City College, NY; and an MBA from George Washington University.
The military training was not his academic qualification.
If we follow your argument, nothing
stops anyone from taking any training and declaring that the stipulated
academic requirement to run for public office is
irrelevant. That is anarchical tendency. lol. Usually, the admitting
institution will formally assess the credentials of the incoming student
to determine if they meet or exceed admission requirements. But if Buhari went
through his own schooling and training where nothing of sort was
required, does he intend to turn the law upside down at the expense
of national sanity?
Stay blessed and take
care,
MsJoe
.
cannot be more simple than
that.
that or he does not.
equivalence of the secondary
school WAEC?
an academic gateway.
. any
Don't make any plans for the
inauguration of Buhari as president of Nigeria. It will not happen.
Gbam!
And I am
Ezeana Igirigi Achusim
Odi-Isaa
Nwa Dim Orioha
Nwanna:
The certificate saga will be rendered moot after February 14, 2015. If
there was a chance Buhari will prevail on February 14, 2015, the
certificates issue would not have been raised until after the election to
keep him from taking office. The issue was brought up at this time to
increase the margin of the arse whooping on February 14, 2015. Watch for
more damning disclosures as the election date approaches. Don't make any
plans for the inauguration of Buhari as president of Nigeria. It will not
happen.
And I am
Ezeana Igirigi Achusim
Odi-Isaa
Nwa Dim Orioha
Sent
from my iPhone
I am certain that Buhari's imminent victory in
February will not be an unlikely event, but the sentiment expressed by
Nafata, with respect to PDP overturning his victory at the courts based on
lack of qualification, is correct and it is one of my concerns over
this certificate issue. Anyone who thinks that it is going to be swept
under the carpet is just not being in reality. If it is not dealt with
now, satisfactorily I might add, the consequences will still be felt even
after the elections.
I do not like the manner with which this certificate
issue has been handled. My dislike for the way it has been handled has
been heightened by Army's denial of holding any certificates of Buhari's.
If we assume that the Army holds the certificates, what stopped the
General's handlers from sending photocopies (alongside the affidavit) to
INEC?
Even if General Buhari does not have the
constitution's minimum education requirement for president (high
school diploma) as rumored by the usual suspects, the aggregate of
all his military training courses has far surpassed WASC -- as a
matter of fact, a rank of General is in the league of PhD holding (it is
an expert level rank in the Army, just as is a PhD in civilian life).
General Buhari's handlers should immediately forward all certificates of
his to INEC today, not tomorrow! If the certificates are lost, then an
affidavit to that effect should be sworn forthwith and transmitted to
INEC.
It will be a travesty if Buhari fails to become our
next president through disqualification. Pastor Joe has been consistent in
his claim that president Jonathan is an expert at using the powers of the
presidency (not tyrannically, but cunningly) to vanquish political
opponents. Indeed, Ebele has an impeccable track record in so doing and I
smell that this certificategate is another of such shrewd
political overkill. If there is any fishiness in General Buhari's
education and certifications, it seems to me that Ebele has found it
and is milking it for a political knockout. PDP's sudden branding of
Buhari, a whole retired General of the Nigerian army, as "a
semi-illiterate" must have been informed by something not visible to
everybody. I hope that they are wrong.
That a man as administratively clueless as
president Jonathan could be this daredevilry in political marksmanship
makes me wanna holler! The clueless-ness going on with Buhari's
certificates submission must be rectified now because, if the shoe
was on the other foot, I would have raised hell by now and so would have
other Buharites done too. We are not hypocrites, so let us
correct ourselves now.
Nebukadineze Adiele
Reject Religion; Revive Reasoning!
Secondly, our constitution only requires a minimum
of secondary school certification for presidential candidates, not army
certification.
Let Buhari produce evidence
he properly graduated from a secondary school. I say this with all
seriousness because I’m aware of soldiers who went on courses abroad,
but only had standard six primary school certification. The military academies abroad
train whatever soldiers we send them. They leave it to our military to
select candidates.
Alagba
Nafata
It is taking too
long to produce this WAEC.
Ayo says that he AYO
has seen it , that Buhari has one.
INEC has not seen it.
Army has not seen it.
APC and Buhari are holding
back on us.
Yes OoOo.
We keep sending
potential coup plotters for Political discussion.
All the
courses Buhari went to are each less than six months and are not Diploma
courses.
Buhari
should go to Onibolaje at palmgroove and Ikorodu road and print
out something.
Chicago state will
do.
Hint...
He joined
cadet 1962...
please
GOD should help before he produces a 1970 WAEC papers.
vin.....///
“Try
to learn how the Nigerian Army handles training and certification of its
officers. A soldier that graduates from NMC, Aldershot, Sandhurst, or
Carlise is not awarded a certificate which he keeps unlike attendance at
a civilian university at the officer's own initiative” –
Stevek
You are missing the point here. First
Buhari unintelligently told a blatant lie that has been debunked by our
Army.
If you have issues with the Army’s
statement, take it up with them, not with me. Perhaps Buhari expected
his army buddies to back him up and not publicly disgrace
him.
Secondly, our constitution only
requires a minimum of secondary school certification for presidential
candidates, not army certification.
Let Buhari produce evidence he
properly graduated from a secondary school. I say this with all
seriousness because I’m aware of soldiers who went on courses abroad,
but only had standard six primary school certification. The military
academies abroad train whatever soldiers we send them. They leave it to
our military to select candidates.
Admittedly, standard six back then was
above what obtains today. Nonetheless, Buhari should comply with the
letter of the law, after all you are marketing him as a principled “rule
of law” candidate.
Furthermore, in the unlikely event
Buhari wins, there’s a real risk PDP will go to court to challenge his
eligibility to be president. His election could then be nullified.
APC is well advised to dump Buhari and
save itself that embarrassment.
If I were PDP, I won’t wait till the
election, but will get someone to file a suit challenging Buhari’s
suitability for office. Even if Buhari is eventually cleared, he would
have been distracted from campaign for weeks… tied down in the court.
Many of his supporters will then go to the polls believing Buhari has
been disqualified.
“What's with you anyway? Why don't you try to find
out about these kind of things before you start maligning and
villifying?” - Stevek
You are the one who hasn’t bothered to
read the Vanguard report of Army denial. Take your own advice and read
the news report before commenting.
Nafata
From:
Stevek stev...@yahoo.com [talkhard] <talk...@yahoogroups.com>Date:
Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: [talkhard] Army
not with Buhari’s original copies of certificates
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Nafata,
Try to learn how the
Nigerian Army handles training and certification of its
officers.
A soldier that graduates
from NMC, Aldershot, Sandhurst, or Carlise is not awarded a
certificate which he keeps unlike attendance at a civilian
university at the officer's own initiative.
The record of the
soldier's course and graduation is sent to unit clerk of the
soldier's unit which is then communicated to the Nigerian Army Pay
and Records Office for the record.
What's with you anyway?
Why don't you try to find out about these kind of things before
you start maligning and villifying?
“Few days after the former Head of State
and Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd explained in
an affidavit submitted to the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, that all his academic credentials were
with the Military Board, the Army have stated that
they do not keep the certificates of any serving or retired
officer or soldier” –
Vanguard
It’s not looking good for the supposedly
upright and principled General Buhari to be caught in such a
barefaced lie.
It does not at all speak well of his
intelligence to tell a blatant lie, which can easily be
disproved.
What does he take Nigerians for?
Unthinking mindless automatons like his worshipful followers
who would uncritically accept anything he says?
Doesn’t he have professional publicists
to advise him on how to handle embarrassing situations like
this?
Is that how he will run the country in
the unlikely event he wins 2015 election… embarrass the
nation with avoidable gaffes and even more cluelessness than
Jonathan?
Because of the violent nature of
Buhari’s supporters, INEC overlooked the General’s lack of
basic qualifications in previous elections.
Now the electoral body which is
statutorily mandated to ensure candidates meet election
requirements, has disingenuously passed the buck… insulting
our intelligence that it is APC’s
responsibility.
Really? If political parties are
responsible for verifying candidates’ credentials, they can
present any illiterate and claim his/her credentials have
been verified.
It’s time for APC to pull the plug on
Buhari, and spare the nation further
embarrassment.
Nafata
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