Bring out Buhari’s Certificate now, Rights group tells Defence Minister, Nigeria Army …..Gives 7-days ultimatum
A human rights group in Nigeria, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has called on the newly appointed Minister of Defence, Monsur Dan-Ali and the authority of the Nigeria Army to bring
out the controversial Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) of the President and Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), which was alleged of not being with the Nigeria Army authority by the then Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah, as a requisite to contest the last Presidential
election in the country, but General Buhari insisted that his controversial original Certificate was with the authority of the
Nigeria Army.
The rights group also gave the seven (7) days ultimatum to the appropriate authority that kept the President Buhari’s Certificate of the released Statement of Result, prior to the 2015 Presidential
election, insisted that failure of President Buhari to order the authority of Nigeria Army as their Commander-in-Chief now, to release its original Senior School Certificate which he used to be enlisted in the Nigeria Army, would amount to blatant lie of highest order from the acclaimed incorruptible President Buhari.
Reacting to the statement credited to the new Defence Minister, Monsur Dan-Ali who was flaying the then Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah under which the alleged Buhari’s Certificate was disappeared for political reason in alleged support of former Nation’s President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan re-election bid, saying that most of the newly sworn Ministers by president Buhari were not round peg in a round hole but just noisemakers.
In a statement issued and signed by the CHRSJ’s Executive Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi,Alimi Sulaiman and copy was made available to newsmen in Lagos on Sunday, urged the concerned Military authority under the new Defence Minister and Chief of Army Staff to bring out the original President’s Controversial Secondary School Certificate in their custody, as the subjects reflected in the purported Statement of Result released by Mr. President prior to the 2015 general elections for doubting Thomas to see, adding that if current men of President
Buhari as Head of Nigeria Military formations could not provide the original Secondary School certificate of President within seven(7) days, they should bury their face in shame.
Comrade Sulaiman, however stressed that Defence Minister, Monsur Dan-Ali has opened the old wound of having un-certificated Secondary School leaver as elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria presently, noted that some Nigerians were not happy with the failure
of General Buhari not being able to attach the photocopy of his original Secondary School Certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) form CF 001 as stipulated by the INEC
form, Electoral Act 2010 and amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria respectively.
According to Sulaiman, “Following the recent statement credited to the new Defence Minister, Monsur Dan-Ali over disappearance of the purported original Secondary School Certificate of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in the custody of Nigeria Army which General Buhari
claimed to be with the Country’s Military authority, prior to the 2015 presidential election. General Buhari has become elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria now and he is the Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces, no Military authority will have temerity to keep his Military Service file now and he should not hesitate to order them to bring out his (Buhari) original controversial Secondary School
Certificate now within seven (7) days for doubting Thomas to see.
“We believe that if you are preaching equity, you must come with clean hands. Failure to bring the Certificate out within the stipulated time would be tantamount to the country being governed by the un-certificated President and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah
will be vindicated for saying the truth that the controversial Buhari’s certificate was not with the authority of the Nigeria Army
then and new Defence Minister, Monsur Dan-Ali, will be disappointed”.
CHRSJ boss therefore maintained that the group would not hesitate to write the International Communities as being empowered by the Freedom of Information Act, to prevail on the authority of the Nigeria Army to bring out the controversial original Secondary School Certificate of
Mr. President, explaining that the human rights group would not allow the Nigeria Army and President Muhammadu Buhari to lay down lay bad precedent in our democratic system.