{"id":701024,"date":"2019-09-08T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T08:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/08\/ezekwesili-questions-lai-mohammeds-plea-over-buharis-missing-certificate\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T08:02:05","slug":"ezekwesili-questions-lai-mohammeds-plea-over-buharis-missing-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/08\/ezekwesili-questions-lai-mohammeds-plea-over-buharis-missing-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekwesili Questions Lai Mohammed&#8217;s Plea Over Buhari&#8217;s Missing Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Obaigeli Ezekwesili, former Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Education, has reacted to Lai Mohammed\u2019s plea\u00a0for Nigerians to forgive President Buhari for misplacing his WAEC certificate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_704949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-704949\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-704949\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lai-Mohammed-speaks-on-Saraki-defeat.jpg\" alt=\"Lai Mohammed\" width=\"700\" height=\"456\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-704949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Channels Television Sunrise Daily on Friday,\u00a0 the Information Minister appealed to Nigerians to pardon President Muhammadu Buhari for not losing his WAEC certificate which is the minimum academic requirement for the office of the president.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Ezekwesili took to micro-blogging platform, Twitter to acknowledge the video clip with the words;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI watched a video clip of @channelstv interview of the Minister of Information, asking Nigerians to forgive the @NGRPresident @MBuhari for losing his school certificate. Not sure what that\u2019s about. Can someone please explain what the request for forgiveness is meant to achieve?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See the tweet below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I watched a video clip of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/channelstv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">@channelstv<\/a> interview of the Minister of Information, asking Nigerians to forgive the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NGRPresident?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">@NGRPresident<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MBuhari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">@MBuhari<\/a> for losing his school certificate. Not sure what that\u2019s about. Can someone please explain what the request for forgiveness is meant to achieve?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oby Ezekwesili (@obyezeks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/obyezeks\/status\/1170399477041176576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obaigeli Ezekwesili, former Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Education, has reacted to Lai Mohammed\u2019s plea\u00a0for Nigerians to forgive President Buhari for misplacing his WAEC certificate. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed Speaking in an interview on Channels Television Sunrise Daily on Friday,\u00a0 the Information Minister appealed to Nigerians to pardon President Muhammadu Buhari for not losing his WAEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ezekwesili Questions Lai Mohammed&#039;s Plea Over Buhari&#039;s Missing Certificate - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/08\/ezekwesili-questions-lai-mohammeds-plea-over-buharis-missing-certificate\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ezekwesili Questions Lai Mohammed&#039;s Plea Over Buhari&#039;s Missing Certificate - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Obaigeli Ezekwesili, former Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Education, has reacted to Lai Mohammed\u2019s plea\u00a0for Nigerians to forgive President Buhari for misplacing his WAEC certificate. 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