Fani-Kayode blasts INEC, says Buhari is above the law

Fani-Kayode

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Director of Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation

Femi Fani-Kayode
Femi Fani-Kayode

Femi-Fani Kayode, Director of Publicity, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for trying to cover General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.

Fani-Kayode alleged that Buhari, was not qualified to contest the forthcoming presidential election because he has failed to submit his first School Leaving Certificate to INEC and should therefore be disqualified from contesting the February 14 presidential election.

“It must be stated that INEC erred in law by publishing the name of a candidate without receiving the personal particulars of the candidate within seven days of receiving his nomination forms as indicated in Section 31(3),” Fani-Kayode said.

“This is indeed a tragedy illustrating what Nigeria has become – that an individual is so powerful that the law has to be ignored to accommodate him.

“Certainly, INEC’s printing of nomination forms or High Court affidavits is in no way or by any stretch of definitions, the same as personal particulars such as school leaving certificate,” he said.

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He said what was more tragic, was the fact that two respected western political elites were in the vanguard of promoting and defending Buhari “in this rape of the Nigerian Constitution.”

He said from available records, Buhari had consistently perpetuated “this contempt and disdain for due democratic process in a serial form since the beginning of this democratic dispensation.”

He said the trend was an indication that the country`s democracy was in trouble because it was now “the rule of men and not the rule of law”.

Fani-Kayode noted that academic qualification was an issue that could not be waived for any citizen, irrespective of his position and religion except as provided by the constitution.

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