At a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, the spokesperson for the campaign organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, urged INEC to support the advancement of democracy, by fully observing the rule of law and the strict adherence to the spirit of electoral laws in Nigeria.
According ro Fani-Kayode, the inability of the APC candidate, Buhari, to present even the minimum requirement of just a leaving school certificate questions his moral and other credentials for pursuing the position of the president of Nigeria.
Fani-Kayode therefore insists Buhari is not qualified to contest the 2015 presidential election and should be disqualified.
He wondered what qualifications were used to recruit him into the military, without a minimum school leaving certificate, where he rose to the rank of a General and even became the Head of state through a military coup that truncated a democratically-elected government in 1983.
Fani-Kayode said: “Academic qualification is a threshold issue that cannot be waived for any citizen no matter how highly-placed and irrespective of whichever region such individual comes from except as provided by the constitution.
“Thus the question must be asked; is Buhari or any other citizen qualified to contest election into the office of the president without meeting the minimum constitutional requirement?
“A perusal of the Nigerian constitution at section 131 unequivocally states that; “A person shall be qualified for election to the office of President if: (a) He is a citizen of Nigeria by birth (b) He has attained the age of forty years(c) He is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party; and (d) He has been educated up to at least School certificate level or its equivalent.
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