Nigeria: Buhari's "No WASC Certificate" Suit Withdrawn

An Abuja-based lawyer, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaiwe, has withdrawn a suit seeking the disqualification of President Muhammadu Buhari from the 2015 Presidential Poll for allegedly not possessing requisite education qualification, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported.

Mr. Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe had alleged that Mr. Buhari was not qualified to contest the 2015 presidential election as he did not sit for the Cambridge West African School Certificate WASC) in 1961 as he claimed.

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