{"id":701990,"date":"2019-09-09T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/buhari-failed-to-defend-himself-before-election-tribunal-pdp\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:19:37","slug":"buhari-failed-to-defend-himself-before-election-tribunal-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/buhari-failed-to-defend-himself-before-election-tribunal-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Failed To Defend Himself Before Election Tribunal: PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_701882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701882\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-701882\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pdp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-701882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PDP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to defend himself before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal over not having a WAEC certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition party therefore urged Buhari to vacate office with immediate effect following a video where Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, begged Nigerians to pardon Buhari over not having WAEC certificate controversy.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lai Mohammed has described the video as doctored and has been released to ridicule the Buhari administration by \u201ca deperate opposition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed was heard in the video, saying Buhari left secondary school 53 years ago, so should be pardoned for not knowing where he kept the certificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty-three years after a fellow had left secondary school, 53 years! I think we should pardon him if he does not even know where he has kept it (certificate),\u201d Mohammed says in the video.<\/p>\n<p>However, PDP\u2019s spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan in a briefing in Abuja on Sunday, said: \u201cOur party mocks the Buhari Presidency for pushing out the video wherein the minister pleaded with Nigerians to pardon President Buhari over his false WAEC certificate claims.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:\u00a0WAEC Certificate: Video Of Me Begging Nigerians To Forgive Buhari Doctored: Lai<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDP notes the deliberate ploy of Alhaji Mohammed to appeal to sentiments, seeing that Mr. President had failed to defend himself before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to defend himself before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal over not having a WAEC certificate. The opposition party therefore urged Buhari to vacate office with immediate effect following a video where Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, begged Nigerians to pardon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701990","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>Buhari Failed To Defend Himself Before Election Tribunal: PDP - 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\/09\/buhari-failed-to-defend-himself-before-election-tribunal-pdp\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Buhari Failed To Defend Himself Before Election Tribunal: PDP - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to defend himself before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal over not having a WAEC certificate. 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