…As Abductors kill Kaduna chief***
President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to submit his academic credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of his bid to seek re-election in 2019.
Mr Buhari, a retired major general, instead told the electoral body that his credentials are still with the military, Punch newspaper reports.
INEC on Thursday pasted names of 70 out of 91 political parties fielding candidates for presidential elections in 2019, including Mr Buhari.
The commission is expected to publish a full list of candidates of political parties today.
A list of candidates made available to journalists on Thursday indicate that Mr Buhari failed to attach necessary documents as requirement for his re-election bid.
Instead, he insisted the documents are in custody of the military.
He attached an affidavit to support his claim.
“I am the above named person and the deponent of this affidavit herein. All my academic qualification documents as filled in my Presidential form, APC/001/2015 are currently with the Secretary of the Military Board as of the time of this affidavit,” the affidavit reads.
Meanwhile, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku submitted relevant documents, with a Diploma in Law in 1969 from the Ahmadu Bello University being his highest qualification.
The former vice-president also attached tax returns indicating that he had paid N10.8m in tax from 2015 to 2017 while declaring his income within the period as N60.2m.
Mr Atiku is Mr Buhari’s major contender in the forthcoming election.
In the meantime, the Paramount Chief of Adara, Agom Maiwada Galadima who had been in the den of his abductors since last Friday has been killed.
The Kaduna State Government confirmed this in a statement on Friday and immediately reimposed a 24 hour curfew in some parts of the state.
According to Samuel Aruwan, senior special assistant to Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Galadima was killed early today.
He said the curfew will be observed in Kaduna metropolis, Kasuwan Magani, Kajuru, Kateri and Kachia, from 11am today
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that four persons including a policeman were killed along Kaduna/Kachia road by the alleged abductors on Friday Oct. 19 before taking away the monarch, his wife and driver.
Both the driver and the wife were freed by the kidnappers, leaving only the chief in their custody.
“The Kaduna state government calls for calm in all our communities. The criminal elements who perpetrated this crime should not be allowed to divide us.
“This is a struggle between good, decent, law abiding people trying to uphold the peace and criminals who want to divide and destroy. It is not a struggle between religious or ethnic groups. Let no criminal find succour in faith or tribe”, Aruwan said.
Additional report from Premium
