“I Am Far More Qualified Than Atiku” – President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to claims in the appeal by Atiku Abubakar and his gathering, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), before the Presidential Election Tribunal. 

Buhari, in a reaction documented on Tuesday by a group of legal counselors driven by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), exposed Atiku's and PDP's case that he was not fit the bill to keep running for President.

The President said he was unquestionably more qualified than Atiku and moved him to create his scholastic qualifications before the court. He contended that Atiku was not met all requirements to pursue the position.

Buhari said he didn't, "whenever, give any bogus data in Form CF00] submitted to the lst respondent, either in 2014 or 2018.

"The affirmation of consistence to the 2019 Form CF001 was right in each material particular."In filling Form CF001 in 2014 and 2019, respondent was not careless of the protected capabilities stipulated in Section 131 of the Constitution and translated in Section 318 of a similar Constitution.
"Applicants themselves are likewise not careless of the way that respondent has undeniably more than the sacred limit expected for a hopeful challenging for the workplace of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
"The respondent affirms that he is unquestionably increasingly qualified, both unavoidably and instructively, to challenge and possess the workplace of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria than the first applicant (Atiku); and that as far as instructive capabilities, trainings and courses visited, both inside and outside Nigeria, he is head and shoulder over the first solicitor as far as securing of information, endorsements, shrubs, decorations and experience.
"Respondent states further that it is the first candidate, who isn't fit the bill to challenge the workplace of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and difficulties the instructive accreditations and authentications of the first applicant.
"first applicant is therefore pulled out to deliver and delicate his instructive endorsements, showing the schools gone to by him, with dates." 

The President gave his instructive resume as: "Grade School, Daura and Maid'adua (1948 – 1952), Middle School, Katsina (1953-1956, Katsina Provincial Secondary School (presently Government College, Katsina (1956-1961)."

Buhari blamed the whole request documented by the PDP and Atiku,noting that they are progressively about pre-decision issues, which the Court of Appeal, sitting as a council needed purview.

He likewise contended that the candidates lied against themselves in the appeal and made clashing cases which the council can't give.

Buhari noticed that while the applicants professed to have won the last presidential decision and furthermore won races in numerous states in the Southsouth and Southeastern piece of the nation, they additionally encouraged the court to invalidate the race and request a new presidential race.

Buhari contended that by temperance of Section of 137of the Electoral Act, solicitors can't scrutinize the consequences of races in states where they guarantee to have won and still hold themselves as applicants.

Buhari blamed the candidates' case that the decision was defaced by degenerate practices and generous rebelliousness with the Electoral Act.

The President additionally blamed the applicants' case that they won the race, demanding that, by the outcome declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), he and his gathering, the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the last presidential race decision.

Buhari denied the case by Atiku and PDP that the Trademoni strategy of the administration was a vote purchasing measure.

He contended that the strategy shapes one of the numerous social intercession strategies of the Federal Government, coordinated at lightening the enduring of the majority.

Buhari contended that the case by the candidates that they won by results they got from an implied INEC server did not have a legitimate premise and ought to be overlooked by the court.

The President moved the solicitors to create proof of their cases that their votes were exhausted and controlled.

The President, in a starter protest he recorded with his reaction, noticed that the inquiries regarding his scholastic capability and the reliefs predicated on the issues were matters over which the Court of Appeal had sat, including that the council did not have the locale to hear them.

He additionally blamed the solicitors' charges of vote control made against some security staff, some named private people and associations, without making them gatherings to the request.

He requested that the council expel the appeal because the reliefs the candidates looked for by the solicitors are pointless.