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Twitter users criticise Lai Mohammed over 2015 interview on Buhari’s missing certificate [Video]
Some Nigerians on social media have dug up a snippet of a 2015 interview of Minister of Information Lai Mohammed to criticise him.
Mohammed was the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the time he granted the interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily in January 2015.
In the snippet of the interview which resurfaced on Twitter on Friday, the Minister had urged Nigerians to forgive President Muhammadu Buhari for misplacing his secondary school certificate in the build-up to the 2015 presidential election.
Mohammed said:
“53 years after a fellow has left secondary school I think we should pardon him if he has not even known where he has kept it (certificate).”
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Reacting to the 14-second video, some Twitter users disagreed with the minister, saying since the President had sworn on oath that his certificate was with the Nigerian Army, begging Nigerians for forgiveness implies he may have lied to the nation on oath.
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See some of the reactions:
Lai Mohammed admitting that PMB lied under oath. The perjurer. Jokes when the Tribunal pardons a criminal offence and validates his election. Not that they are beyond it. All jokers. https://t.co/H5dVlacyfL
— Temple (@TempleColeq) September 6, 2019
Lai Mohammed said we should ‘pardon’ Buhari for losing his WAEC certificate (which can be easily retrieved if he truly had them) becos 53 yrs is a long time to keep such documents.
This means that all 70 & 80yr Olds that still have their Birth Certificates are witches & wizards?— Mr Stanley Nwabia (@MrStanleyNwabia) September 6, 2019
You think you have seen it all?
Just watch and Retweet “Ridiculousness Nigeria”
~Lai Mohammed begs Nigerians to pardon President Muhammadu Buhari, because he doesn’t know where he kept his certificates .??
pic.twitter.com/MCC8H0Fz9g— Anambra 1st son? (@UchePOkoye) September 6, 2019
I have seen the video by Lai Mohammed where he says Nigerians should forgive Buhari for not showing his certificate because he must have lost it
1. That is not what the man himself says
2. It is intended to prejudice the PEPT.
3. Now the PEPT must do justice to Nigerians.
— ?? (@solomonapenja) September 6, 2019
With Lai Mohammed begging Nigerians to forgive Buhari because he can’t find his certificate, if the PEPT does not rule judgement against President Buhari then we may as well throw the Judiciary inside the dustbin
I forgive you President Buhari but competence sir….
— the Morris Monye factor (@Morris_Monye) September 6, 2019
With Lai Mohammed begging Nigerians to forgive Buhari because he can’t find his certificate, if the PEPT does not rule judgement against President Buhari then we may as well throw the Judiciary inside the dustbin
I forgive you President Buhari but competence sir….
— the Morris Monye factor (@Morris_Monye) September 6, 2019
Lai Mohammed must be confused, @MBuhari said his certificate is with the military. Why is Lai now saying we should pardon PMB for not knowing where he left his cert? So @MBuhari lied under oath..
— Màyówà òlágùnjú ❁ (@iam_doctormayor) September 6, 2019
Lai Mohammed is a classical liar, my late father’s 1946 Cambridge school certificate obtained from Dennis Memorial Grammar School DMGS) Onitsha is still in my possession till date. https://t.co/MOxRw1Usa3
— Austin Nwabufo (@AustinNwabufo) September 6, 2019
Lai Mohammed beggin Nigerians to forgiv Buhari, vry huge joke, forgiv hm for doin what?, for forgin a mere O’level schul cert.?, or for releasin moneys to Inec to rig election for hm ?, or for impoverishin Nigerians wt poverty, Mr. Lai let me tel u time is agnst Buhari I swear.
— Austin Nwabufo (@AustinNwabufo) September 6, 2019
Lai Mohammed Is Pleading For Mercy
They Are No Longer Confident
God’s Good
— Revolutionary Effa? (@DrEffaB) September 6, 2019
On a day that Nigerians are celebrating excellence & good governance by rare leaders like #GovSeyiMakinde @seyiamakinde & @EmekaIhedioha #Ihedioha100Days in office.
Uncle Lai Mohammed seeks pardon for a fellow that cannot find his WAEC Certificate after 53 years of leaving school pic.twitter.com/iIJWYSIM0h— Gbemi Dennis™ (@GbemiDennis) September 6, 2019
This is an insult to you, well educated Nigerians & all Nigerians in diaspora who are working hard to put food on their family tables..
Lai Mohammed is a disgrace to Africa..#ImpeachBuhariNow
— ♠Alhaji Krypto♠ (@Mazi_OlaAndruz) September 6, 2019
Lai Mohammed has exposed @MBuhari
& @APCNigeria on National Television.No NIGERIAN citizen to be offered employment without producing their certificates so why pardon @MBuhari for not producing his own certificates as stipulated by the law as the minimum criteria.#sackbuhari
— Stephen Enunwah | … ?? (@senunwah) September 6, 2019
We should have a system whereby everyone abides by the law, how can lai Mohammed say in a public press to forgive the president for not having a waec result…rules are rules if we don’t abide by rules we are animals. #sackbuhari
— emmanuel peter (@emmanue70618635) September 6, 2019
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