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FORMER Head of State and All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate in the forthcoming elections, retired General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that the certificate saga against him was meant to ridicule him and his quest to wrest power from President Goodluck Jonathan. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, said it would not be drawn into the controversy as it is bent on delivering credible elections for Nigerians.

Buhari, who spoke with The Guardian through his media aide, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, Saturday, explained that the present crop of Army personnel has been politicised, the reason for which an officer would challenge the certificates of his superior just to cast an aspersion on him and also favour his principal who would be vying for the same election.

Fashakin said: "The controversy that is being generated by the certificate issue is something that is not acceptable. They are just looking for something to hold desperately to be able to prevent Buhari.

"What are the facts of this case? Before now, Gen. Buhari had contested elections for three occasions. Are you going to say that he didn't present any certificate for those three times? He also had risen to the position of a Major General in the Army and all his credentials are well documented by the Army in those days. It is not only that he rose to the position of a Major General; he also rose to the position of a military Head of State.

"Now, the Army of that same country claims that he does not have a certificate. It is something that should puzzle us as a people. The Chief of Army Staff said that he does not know what people are talking about, meaning that they do not have records of his certification to have passed certain courses, including academic attainments."

According to Buhari, "These are issues that raise some questions. That we can have a Major General in the army, whose certificates are now being subjected to debate, point to some political ends. What I would say is that this is a no case submission.

" May be, the person talking about General Buhari's certificates today, was just struggling to become a Captain when Buhari was Head of State. Where was he then? So, if they are talking of Buhari's certificates in the Army, the first question we should ask is: who is the person talking?"

He also argued: "If the Army can come out to deny its own, especially someone who became a GOC, and also commanded three of the four divisions of the Nigerian Army as it were, and now to be subjected to this kind of vilification because of some obvious indescribable political ends, then you know that there is something fundamentally wrong with the nation.

"As a matter of fact, General Buhari was even a prefect in his secondary school, so... it is even a shame on all of us that someone who became our Head of State would now have to be ridiculed in this manner because of some terrible political ends that some people are pursuing. It is a collective shame on us as a people."

Meanwhile, INEC has continued to keep mum over the alleged certificate scandal involving the APC presidential candidate.

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Fomer Head of State, Maj-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd.) | credits: file photo

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has called for religious tolerance among Nigerians.

Buhari spoke on Sunday in Lagos at the interdenominational Lagos State Thanksgiving Service officiated by the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and other clergies.

It was hosted by the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and his wife, Abimbola, at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja.

The APC candidate, who expressed delight at being part of the event, added that religion should not be a source of division among Nigerians.

He said, I am honoured to participate in this annual thanksgiving service. This event brings together all Nigerians from the state Christians, Muslims and other religions in Lagos to thank the almighty God.

I believe that every Nigerian should be free and secured to practice their different religion. Religion must never be used as an excuse to divide, oppress or gain unfair advantage. All my life I have expressed the belief that all Nigerians must worship God according to their wish.

The duty of government is not religion. Security for all Nigerians, regardless of tribe or religion, is our commitment on this day of thanksgiving. We shall all sit together like this, rejoice and thank God together for him to give us the country of our dream.

Earlier, Fashola said people predicting doom for the country and the state in the guise of religion were heating up the polity.

He said, Today, 364 days after, girls have disappeared without trace, bombs have exploded in mindless orgies of violence. Also, Nigerian towns and villages have been sacked, our brothers and sisters have been displaced from their homes. Young children have died in stampedes while looking for jobs.

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The All Progressives Grand Alliance in Nasarawa State on Saturday presented the immediate past Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, as its governorship candidate of the party in the 2015 election.

Maku was presented along with his running mate, Alhaji Ibrahim Abu, amidst tight security.

Presenting the former minister to state and local government party executives at a meeting held at Manyi Royal Suites in Lafia, the state capital, the Chairman of the party in the state, Chief Ifeanyi Amakor, said the party considered the choice of Maku in the best interest of the party and of the people of the state.

Amakor reasoned that Maku was the candidate that possessed the required leadership capacity and pedigree to win the governorship election on the platform of the APGA in the state.

He said, I want to use this opportunity to unveil Maku as APGAs candidate for the governorship (election) in Nasarawa State and to clear every rumour that Maku is not our candidate. Let me tell you, we dont have two candidates in the state; the only candidate we have is Maku.

Responding after he was presented to local government party executive committee, Maku pledged that if given the mandate, he would create massive youth empowerment and job opportunities in order to enhance the economy and bring about peaceful co-existence in the state.

He added that he would provide just, fair, qualitative and resultoriented leadership that would bring about change and infrastructural development in the state when voted to power.

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