MY CERTIFICATES ARE WITH MILITARY,’- BUHARI TELLS INEC

Against accusations over his certificates, former Head of
State and the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress in the 2015 general elections, Maj.Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told the Independent
National Electoral Commission that his academic
qualifications and credentials are with the military.
A visit by journalists to the headquarters of the commission
on Monday in Abuja revealed that Buhari's academic
qualifications were not on display, unlike those of other
Presidential candidates, including President Goodluck
Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party.
But in an affidavit, which he deposed to at a High Court of
the Federal Capital Territory, he explained that all his
certificates were with the Secretary, Military Board.
The affidavit dated November 24, 2014, was stamped and
received by INEC on December 18 2014.
"I am the above-named person and deponent to this
affidavit therein. All my academic qualifications documents
as filled in my presidential form, President APC/001/2015,
are currently with the Secretary, Military Board as of the
time of presenting this affidavit. The affidavit is made in
good faith and for record purpose," Buhari stated.
The PUNCH had exclusively reported that Vice President
Mohammed Namadi Sambo had also told INEC that his
Bachelors and Masters' degree certificates in Architecture
from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, had been
consumed by fire.
Sambo, who is the Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP,
had made the declaration in the documents he filed with
INEC and displayed on the commission's office in Abuja,
even though the details of the fire that consumed the
certificates were not given.
Sambo's papers were received and stamped by the INEC
between December 10 and 18, 2014 and validated by two
letters from the ABU, a copy of which was obtained by our
correspondent.