Tag: Presidential election petition tribunal

Why Atiku Isn’t Coming By Farooq Kperogi

Emporium Reporters

Poor leadership is obviously a grave, enduring problem in Nigeria, but an even graver problem, in my opinion, is the country’s docile, acquiescent, and fatalistic citizenry. Most Nigerians are afflicted by a condition anthropologists call cargo cult mentality, that is, the superstitious belief, first recorded among pre-modern tribes in Melanesia, that all the fine things of this world will somehow magically and effortlessly appear because people who desire it wish it into existence. It’s cargo cult mentality that drives and sustains the forlorn hope that “Atiku is coming” as Nigerians…

TRIBUNAL UPDATE : Witness Contradicts Buhari, Says Enlisted Personnel Not Ordered To Submit Certificates …..As Abba Kyari claims he signed , collected Buhari’s Cambridge 12 days ago

Emporium Reporters

The controversy surrounding the educational qualification of Muhammadu Buhari for the February 23 presidential election, took center stage on Tuesday at the presidential election petition tribunal with more revelations emerging on the issue. Buhari had in 2015 claimed that his certificates were with the military board on request. But one of his witnesses, Major General Paul Tafa, (Rtd) who claimed to have been enlisted in the Nigerian Army with Buhari on April 16, 1962, however denied that they were ordered to submit their certificates to the military board. Tafa, who…