Certificate saga: Buhari is hiding something ― PDP

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday observed that “the fretting and jittering in the Presidency whenever the issue of President Muhammadu Buhari’s academic certificate is mentioned confirms assertions by Nigerians that Mr President is morally burdened and ostensibly has something to hide.”

The party’s assertion came in the wake of the Presidency’s statement which on Monday accused it of raising the certificate issue to sow seeds of discord.

The main opposition party in a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja, insisted that President Buhari’s handlers should do the needful by placing the certificate in public domain instead of confronting and threatening Nigerians for demanding that Mr President shows his certificate.

The statement added: “The Buhari Presidency should know that their threats and confrontation cannot take away the fact that their principal’s certificate issue requires a personal responsibility and Mr President cannot wish away this responsibility as he had always done on official matters.

“If Mr President has nothing to hide, he should end the confrontations by his presidency and show integrity by writing the military authorities to make public the said certificate.

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“In failing to do so, Mr President is opening himself to public opprobrium particularly as millions of Nigerian youths see such as grossly undesirable of a leader, expected to set examples.

“Moreover, President Buhari should know that Nigerians are aware that he is not the only retired military officer to aspire for elective office in the country and none of them brought the claims of their certificates being held by the military.”

The PDP, therefore, asserted that President must show Nigerians his claimed school certificate upon which his nomination as a candidate is based.

“If he does not have this credential, he should make such declaration and stop the nebulous claim that his credentials are with the military,” the party said.