Certificate saga: PDP accuses Buhari of moral burden, secrecy

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed the frequent fretting and jittering in the Presidency whenever the issue of President Muhammadu Buhari’s academic certificate is mentioned on the President’s moral burden.

The PDP in response to a statement credited to the Buhari Presidency alleging that those raising the certificate issue are sowing seeds of discord, insists that the Presidency should do the needful by placing the certificate in public domain instead of confronting and threatening Nigerians for demanding that Buhari shows his certificate.

The party stressed that threats and confrontation by the Presidency cannot take away the fact that Buhari’s certificate issue requires a personal responsibility that cannot wished away 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.

“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”, said the party’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbodiyan.

The PDP demanded that the President show Nigerians his claimed school certificate upon which his nomination as a candidate is based, adding that if he does not have this credential, he should make such declaration and stop the nebulous claim that his credentials are with the military.