Muhammadu Buhari
Barely 24 hours after a lawyer filed a suit seeking the disqualification of the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, over his certificate, four persons have headed to court to file fresh criminal suit against him.
Shield Jones Ufot, Jimmy David, Ogueri Enwerem and Tochukwu Okorie filed the suit at an Abuja Magistrate Court over alleged false information.
They filed a direct criminal complaint through their counsel, Ugochukwu Ezekiel, at the court.
The complaint was brought pursuant to Section 143(5) and 152 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The complainants cited Buhari as the only defendant in the suit.
They alleged that Buhari gave a false evidence to a public officer contrary to Section 157 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 158 of the Penal Code Law.
The Complainants averred that they are Nigerian citizens, activists and social crusaders committed to ensuring obedience to the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a duty to report crime and ensure prosecution of offenders.
They further averred that they are tax payers and voters in Nigeria qualified to vote and be voted for in Nigeria.
In their particulars of offence, the complainants submitted that Buhari on December 18, 2014 filled and submitted form C.F 001 to the Independent National Electoral Commission (a public office) wherein the said General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) gave his qualification to contest for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as West African School Certificate, which he claimed to have obtained in 1961.
They further submitted that Buhari, with intent to mislead a public officer as to compliance with the provisions of Section 31 of the Electoral Act, 2010, deposed to various affidavits in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja wherein he stated that he attended Katsina Provincial Secondary School, Katsina State and obtained a West African School Certificate and the certificates he claimed to have obtained are with the Nigerian Army.
They also submitted that Buhari never sat for the West African Examination Council examination in 1961 as he claimed and that in the entire records of the school and West African Examination Council, there appeared no name of the said Mohammadu Buhari.
They further contended that the actions of the accused constitute offences of giving false evidence to a public officer contrary to Section 157 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 158 of the Penal Code Law.
