Breaking: Buhari eminently qualified to contest 2019 election –Tribunal

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday said President Muhammadu Buhari was qualified to contest for the 2019 presidential election.

The Tribunal Chairman, Justice Mohammed Garba said Buhari’s certificate from the Nigerian military is higher than the Secondary School certificate stated as a minimum academic requirement for the election in the constitution.

“Mr Buhari is not only qualified but is eminently qualified” for the election, chairman of the Court of Appeal panel said.

Garba said this while reading judgement in the petition filed by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party questioning Mr Buhari’s re-election.

According to him, the PDP had failed to further prove otherwise.

The court held that the evidence tendered regarding Buhari’s qualifications were not to be relied upon, since the PDP was not the original makers of the documents.

Abubakar and the PDP had through their lead counsel, Livy Uzoukwu, among others, had contended that Buhari was not qualified to have contested and that he supplied false information to the INEC.