By Vivian Okejeme
Abuja
A Federal High Court in Abuja, will today, deliver a ruling on the stay of execution on an earlier ruling it delivered in a suit challenging the authenticity of the academic credentials of President Muhammadu Buhari.
President Buhari had recently appealed against the previous ruling of the court, dismissing his preliminary objection to the suit filed by an Abuja-based lawyer, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaiwe.
Nwokocha-Ahaiwe in the suit, had argued that Buhari was not qualified to vie for the office of the president on the account that he did not possess the minimum academic qualification to do so.
He also alleged that Buhari did not sit for the Cambridge West African School Certificate (CWASC) in 1961 as he had earlier claimed.
At the resumption of proceedings yesterday, parties in the case were not present in court.
The trial judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola attributed the absence of the parties to the fact that they may not have been served hearing notices on the new adjourned date.
He consequently adjourned the case till today for ruling, to enable parties to be served on the new adjourned date.
It will be recalled that the case was said to have been adjourned indefinitely at the last sitting.
There have been controversies over the academic credentials of President Buhari prior to the 2015 general elections.
The President, who is being represented by a retinue of top Nigerian lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), was alleged not to have included his West African School Certificate among the documents he tendered to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the build up to the election.
He was said to had written to INEC, stating that his secondary school certificate was with the Military Board.
