President Muhammadu Buhari says he is far more academically qualified than the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abu
President Muhammadu Buhari says he is far more academically qualified than the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
The president’s statement comes on the back of a petition filed by Atiku and the PDP challenging his victory during the February 23 presidential election. The former vice president alleged that the result from the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showed he defeated Buhari in the election.
According to the result declared by INEC from the 36 states and the federal capital territory (FCT), Buhari polled 15,191,847, while Atiku came second with 11,262,978 votes. But the PDP candidate refuted the result claiming he garnered a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari, who, according to him, polled 16,741,430 votes.
He also alleged that Buhari was unqualified to contest for the presidential election as he did not possess the minimum qualification of a school certificate as required by the constitution.
But in a response filed by a team of lawyers led by Wole Olanipekun, Buhari said it was Atiku who was not qualified to contest the election, challenging him to produce his educational certificates indicating the schools attended by him with dates.
The president said he “was way above” the former vice president in terms of acquisition of knowledge, certificates, laurels, medals and experience. He also denied submitting false information to INEC concerning his qualification.
