Today, 30th of June, 2016 has been slated for a court proceeding challenging President Muhammadu Buhari's educational qualification as the first man of Nigeria's political structure.
President Muhammadu Buhari
Reports on ThisDay have it that President Muhammadu Buhari may know his fate on his protracted certificate saga today following a scheduled Federal High Court hearing in Abuja.
Buhari through his legal representatives had earlier sought to stop the law suit against his educational qualification for the post of president of Nigeria over concerns of the authenticity of his school leaving certificate.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who had earlier reserved ruling on the motion for this Wednesday, had to adjourned to Thursday to enable service to be delivered to parties in the case.
When the matter was called up, parties in the suit were not present in court. Justice Ademola, while suggesting that the absence of the parties in the suit may be due to the possibility that they were not served on the new adjourned date, announced an adjournment to enable parties to be served on the new adjourned date.
An Abuja based legal practitioner, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaiwe, had filed an application asking the Federal High Court to nullify the election of Buhari as President of Nigeria on the grounds that he did not possess the minimum academic requirement for the position.
The plaintiff in the suit also alleged that Buhari did not sit for the Cambridge West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1961 as he had earlier claimed.
But Buhari raised a preliminary objection to the suit on the grounds that he was not properly served.