The
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it was satisfied by
the academic documents submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari while running
for office.
Mr
Buhari’s early school certificate was one of the major grounds of a petition
filed against his victory by Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
Mr
Abubakar’s legal team said Mr Buhari claimed, in INEC filings, to have attended
a school that could not be traced. He also said Mr Buhari claimed to bear a
certificate that was not in existence at the time he claimed to have obtained
it.
But in its
response to Mr Abubakar’s grounds at the Presidential Elections Petitions
Tribunal in Abuja, INEC said it had no objections about Mr Buhari’s academic
documents.
The
commission said it was “satisfied with the educational qualification presented”
by Mr Buhari to contest for office, according to excerpts of its submission
seen by Premium Times.
It argued
that Mr Abubakar’s petition was “incompetent”, “lacking in merit” and
“frivolous”. It also prayed the court to dismiss it.
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