Godwin Tsa, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku have asked the presidential election tribunal to sack President Muhammadu Buhari on account of him not possessing the requisite academic qualifications to have contested for the poll.
While insisting that it has made an iron cast case against the eligibility of the president to have contested for the number one position in the country, the petitioners further maintained that the election that produced him did not meet up with the standard set out in the Electoral Act.
This was contained in the 43-page final addresses to the Justice Mohammed Garba led five- member presidential election tribunal filed by their lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN) on August 14, 2019.
The petitioners who are challenging the return of Buhari and the credibility of the election had closed their case after calling 62 witnesses and tendering over 4000 documents.
Meantime, the tribunal has fixed August 21 for the adoption of final addresses by parties to the petition.
But in its final written address, the PDP and Atiku insisted that they have proved all allegations contained in their petition against the conduct of the February 23 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The petitioners further claimed to have established the fact that Buhari does not possess the requisite academic qualification for the position of President of Nigeria.
They stated that even Buhari’s own witnesses under cross examination admitted to the fact that Buhari does not possess a school certificate, being the basic requirements for contesting for the office of the president.
“We therefore submit that all the purported evidence led by the 2nd respondent (Buhari) to prove that he attended a secondary school or a primary school or that he attended some courses, is irrelevant because he did not rely on any of those purported qualifications in exhibit P1, he relied on primary school certificate, WASC and Officer Cadet.
“Equally futile is his attempt to prove that he can speak and write in the English language. That is all irrelevant to his inability to produce his primary school certificate, secondary school certificate or WASC and his Officer Cadet qualification, whatever that means. Officer Cadet is not a qualification or certificate under the Constitution and Electoral Act; nor is it known to any law.
On the purported Cambridge University certificate tendered by Buhari before the tribunal, the petitioners asked why, “it was easier for Buhari to go all the way to Cambridge in the United Kingdom to obtain a bogus documents that his own witnesses said was not a certificate, instead of just driving down the street in Abuja to the Army Headquarters or placing a phone call to the Secretary of the Military Board in Abuja to hurry over with his certificate or certificates”
They further contended that, “A comparison of the purported Cambridge Assessment International Education Certifying Statement of the purported West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate and a certified true copy of the purported confidential result sheet of the University of Cambridge West African School Certificate of 1961 for the Provincial Secondary School, Katsina reveals many discrepancies in the suppose result.
“One listed 8 subjects that the candidate therein mentioned one ‘Mohamed Buhari’ allegedly sat for, the other 6 subjects, both documents are therefore unreliable as both cannot be correct. The contradiction must count against the 2nd respondent.
Another false claim by Buhari, according to the petitioners is that he attended, “Elementary School, Daura and Mai Aduwa 1948-52”. Elementary School Daura is totally different from Mai Aduwa, their locations are totally different. He also claimed he entered Middle School Katsina in 1953, however, the petitioners submitted that by 1953, the Middle School system had been abolished in the northern region of Nigeria.
On the claim that his certificates were with the military, the petitioners submitted that Buhari failed woefully to prove the claim, “rather the petitioners’ evidence to the contrary was not contested nor challenged.
It is also the case of the petitioners that they have successfully proved that the Nigerian Army had denied being in possession of Buhari’s alleged certificates.
“One of the strongest evidence on the issue was given by the second respondent’s own witness, RW1, General Paul Tafa, (Rtd), who under cross examination by the 1st respondent (INEC), told the court firmly and unequivocally that the Army did not collect the certificates of military Officers and added, ‘there was no such thing”.
On the issue of rigging and non compliance with the Electoral Act, the petitioners said with the plethora of evidence tendered and witnesses called they have been able to show to the tribunal that Buhari’s election was invalid.
They added that analysis of results from 11 states showed how INEC in connivance with Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) wrongly and unlawfully credited Buhari with votes not valid or lawful.
According to them documents tendered before the tribunal showed huge discrepancies between collated results as contained in the tendered Certified True Copies of forms EC8A and polling units.
They further alleged that a total of 2, 906,384 votes were cancelled across the country, while 2, 698,773 Nigerians were disenfranchised.
They said the two figures when added exceeded the 3, 928,869 differential between the votes as stated in INEC form EC8E.
Mallam Muhammadu Buhari ought not only be sacked but he should be dragged before the ICC at the Hague,in the Netherland,for the ongoing pogroms with genocidal intents ,coupled with ethnic cleansings of indigenous Nigerians.
The perpetrators of the above crimes against humanity are the Boko Haram
Jihadist Killer Squads and the MACBAN’s Fulani Herdsmen and Militias.
President Buhari is a known god – father of the former group and the Grand
Patron of the latter.
There are some damning and convicing proves to buttress the facts that
Mallam Muhammadu Buhari is solely responsible for all the barbaric and bellicose acts of savageries and pogroms ,coupled with ethnic cleansings of Indigenous Nigerians and the utter destructions of human efforts in the country.
The retired General and an Ex-Military Despot,Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, might have escaped prosecutions for all his crimes against humainty before
and during the Biafran – Nigerian War of 1967 to 1970 and also as a Miltary
Despot in the 1980s,but this time round,Buhari must face the music jare.
It was indeed,at the behest of Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, that the Sharia
State Governors went out their ways to recruit,nurtur and sire their Boko Haram Squads as their custodians of Sharia-jurisprudence.
As reported in the Guardian Newspaper of the 27th of August 2001,
Gen. (Rtd) Muhmmadu Buhari had convened a Seminar on Sharia in Kaduna.
In his opening speech,he thus declared,qoute,” I will continue show openly
and inside me the total commitment to Sharia Movemment sweeping all over
Nigeria.Allah willing,we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation
of Sharia in the coutry,” unquote.
Every Nigerian knows all about the relationship of Mallam Buhari vis- a – vis
the Jihadist Killer Squads Boko Haram, of which the records are well documented and reported too.
Mallam Muhammadu Buhari,as the Chairman of MACBAN did once lead a
delegation of MACBAN’s Chieftain to confront the late Governor of Oyo State,
Dr. Lam Adesina.
That was after some hordes of barbaric and bellicose Fulani Herdsmen had
invaded Oyo State,destroying in their wake,Oyo farmland and crops,sacking and pillaging Farmsteds and Hamlets and gang raping Oyo daughters and women folks.
Some brave Oyo farmers and hunters had then hounded and routed the Fulani alien savages and sent them packing from their State across their border into neighbouring Kwara State.
Mallam Muhammadu Buhari did threaten and promise Governor Lam Adesina
then,that one day in the future, his Fulani Herdmen would kill those who would dare deny them their right of passage through out the country.
The fact that as soon as Mallam Buhari took over the Presidency in 20015, the
MACBAN’s Fulani Herdsmen and Militias have thus been emboldened to do exact what ,Buhari had promised the late Governor of Oyo State,Dr.Lam Adesina, does make him directly respobsible of the barbaric and bellicose acts of savageries , pogroms and ethnic cleansing going on in the country.
Nonetheless,according to the Minister of Defence.Rtd.Brig-General Mansur Muhammad Dan Ali and his Interior Ministry Counterpart,Rtd.Lt-General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau,the Nigerian Army and the Police are under a
standing order from the presidency, to assist the Fulani Herdsmen in exercising their right of passage all over the country,which is accorded them by an ECOWAS Protocol.
President Buhari must be taken to the Hague and along with him all the Members of his Axis of Evil Party, so called APC.
No to the status quo ante bellum!
Down with Buhari’ Hausa/Fulani Islamic Hegemony!!