Aishat Al Hassan
As the Senate begins screening ministerial nominees this week, Gombe State youth group, under the aegies of Youth Salvation Awareness Forum, have faulted the authenticity of the secondary school certificate of Amina J. Mohammed, a nominee.
In a petition against Amina’s ministerial nomination, dated October 12, 2015, signed by one S.S. Abubakar and addressed to Senate President Bukola Saraki, a copy of which was made available to LEADERSHIP, the youth group doubts the secondary school she claimed that she attended.
The group called on the Senate to carry out a thorough enquiry into which of the secondary schools she attended in the Isle of Man, because according to the group, the Isle of Man is not the name of a school but of a self-governing British crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the Great Britain and Ireland.
A check on her curriculum vitae showed that, as part of her education, she obtained a secondary school certificate (O level) from the Isle of Man, UK, in 1979.
But the petition, which demands to know the particular school the ministerial nominee enrolled at the Isle of Man, recalled that her nomination during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration was withdrawn for a similar reason.
The petition reads in part, “With due respect to our amiable and distinguished senator, we want this great chamber to clear our doubt of her enrolment at Isle of Man. Information had it that during President Obasanjo’s administration, she was to be nominated a minister, unfortunately the fact that she did not enroll for any secondary school disqualified her of the nomination, following the provisions in sections 175 (5) and 65 (2) (a) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).”
The youth group expressed confidence on the capacity of the Senate to do a thorough job during the ministerial screening, saying it was hopeful that its petition would be given the attention it deserves.
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