President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari,
admitted before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in
Abuja on Tuesday that no certificate was listed on the President’s
curriculum vitae and that none was among the documents obtained
from Cambridge University earlier tendered as exhibits.
Kyari, who testified as the President’s third defence witness,
also admitted obtaining the Cambridge documents personally on July
18, 2019.
The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate,
Atiku Abubakar, had filed the petition before the tribunal to
challenge the victory of President Buhari and his All Progressives
Congress in the February 23, 2019 poll.
Part of the grounds of the petition was that Buhari did not
possess the academic qualification necessary to contest the
poll.
Under a cross examination by the petitioners’ lawyer, Kyari said
he was 67 years old and that he had known Buhari for nearly 40
years.
Kyari also said he signed for and collected the Cambridge
documents for the assessment by Cambridge.
He did not say if he traveled to London to obtain the documents;
but he confirmed that none of the documents contained a
certificate.
He confirmed that the Cambridge documents were
“assessments.”
He also confirmed that the curriculum vitae signed by Buhari did
not have any certificate listed, apart from the list of schools
attended by the President.
He also admitted that the Diploma in Strategic Study which he
claimed Buhari possessed was not listed in the President’s CV.
Under cross-examination by APC’s lawyer, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN),
Kyari, however maintained that Atiku was a Cameroonian by being
born in Jadda in 1946, as of the time of which the part of Adamawa
State was still a part of Norther Cameroon.
He also identified Buhari in a picture of those who were said to
be the President’s classmates and teachers while graduating as a
Class 6 pupil in 1961.
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FG Appoints Dr. Shaba as Boss of Space Development
Agency NASRDA
The Federal Government has appointed Dr. Halilu Shaba Ahmad as
the acting Director-General of the National Space Research and
Development Agency (NASRDA), following the expiration of the
two-term tenure of Professor Seidu Mohammed.
PRNigeria gathered that Dr. Shaba is one of the most senior
directors in the Space Research agency. A graduate of Geography
from Bayero University Kano with Masters Degree from Ahmadu Bello
University Zaria, he obtained and Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from the
Federal University of Technology, Minna in 2000.
He started his career as a cartographer at the National
Population Commission in 1989, before he returned to the Federal
University of Technology, Minna where he was a lecturer and Deputy
Dean. He was also Deputy Director Planning and Research at the
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) before he was appointed
Director of Strategic Space Applications at the National Space
Research and Development Agency since 2009 before his current
appointment.
An expert in Geosciences and Geomatics, specializing in
Satellite Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Dr.
Shaba has been a Member of Nigerian Delegation to United Nations
Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS); Joint Expert
Group (JEG8) on the implementation of an integrated AU-EU Joint
Strategy under the 8th Partnership on Science, Information Society
and Space; Extended Coordinating Team of Global Monitoring of the
Environment & Africa (GMES & Africa); and Executive
Committee Member & GEO Principal for Nigeria, Group on Earth
Observation (GEO), Geneva, Switzerland.
He is also Member of Nigerian Delegation to United Nations
Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS), Joint Expert
Group (JEG8) on the implementation of an integrated AU-EU Joint
Strategy under the 8th Partnership on Science, Information Society
and Space, Extended Coordinating Team of Global Monitoring of the
Environment & Africa (GMES & Africa), and Executive
Committee Member & GEO Principal for Nigeria, Group on Earth
Observation (GEO), Geneva, Switzerland.
By PRNigeria