{"id":18031,"date":"2019-11-15T19:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=18031"},"modified":"2019-11-15T19:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:47:40","slug":"buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court","title":{"rendered":"Buhari does not need certificate to be president -Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday held that President<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammadu_Buhari\"> Muhammadu Buhari<\/a> was right not to have submitted his academic credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n<p>The apex court stated this while giving a reason for dismissing the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>According to the court, Buhari was eminently qualified to contest the last presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The court held that contrary to claim by the appellants, no law requires a candidate to submit his\/her academic certificates to the electoral umpire before being allowed to contest the election.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court also held that the constitution does not require one to possess a secondary school certificate to be qualified to run for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>It added that schooling up to secondary school, without possessing the result of the final examination was sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court further explained that Buhari did not only show that he has a secondary certificate and rose to the rank of Major General in the Army, attended military training, became the nation\u2019s Head of State, could communicate in English and possessed a primary school leaving certificate, all to the satisfaction of INEC.<\/p>\n<p>The three-man panel of the court upheld the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, on the issues of Buhari\u2019s qualification and possession of relevant certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court resolved issues 1 and 2 against the PDP and Atiku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday held that President Muhammadu Buhari was right not to have submitted his academic credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The apex court stated this while giving a reason for dismissing the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. According to the court, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,158,620],"class_list":["post-18031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-presidency","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari does not need certificate to be president -Supreme Court - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court on Friday held that President Muhammadu Buhari was right not to have submitted his academic credentials to the Independent National\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari does not need certificate to be president -Supreme Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court on Friday held that President Muhammadu Buhari was right not to have submitted his academic credentials to the Independent National\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-15T19:47:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/Buhari1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari does not need certificate to be president -Supreme Court\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-15T19:47:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/Buhari1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Presidency\",\"Supreme Court\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-does-not-need-certificate-to-be-president-supreme-court\",\"name\":\"Buhari does not need certificate to be president -Supreme Court - 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