By Dennis Agbo
The Chairman of the Forum of Former Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly and former Southeast Spokesman to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Denge Josef Onoh, has dismissed the ongoing public debate surrounding the President’s newly published Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) nomination form as a product of “sheer political mischief and legal illiteracy.”
Reacting to the controversies trailing the publication of the Form EC9 by [INEC], where President Tinubu’s primary and secondary school certificate sections were left blank while attaching his Chicago State University (CSU) degree and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate, Onoh stated that the President acted in total conformity with the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) and established Supreme Court precedents.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Denge Josef Onoh broke down the legalities sustaining the President’s documentation: Onoh highlighted that “The basic baseline threshold required to contest for the office of the President under Section 131(d) of the 1999 Constitution is to be educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent. President Tinubu possesses a valid Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from [Chicago State University].
