Brigadier General (rtd) Monsur Dan-Ali, the new minister of defence, revisited the President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate scandal yesterday, November 13.
Speaking when he assumed duty at the Ministry of Defence, Abuja, Dan-Ali criticised the immediate past chief of army staff, Lt-Gen. Kenneth Minimah (rtd) and the Nigerian Army under him for not showing respect for Buhari during his WAEC certificate controversy before the 2015 general election, This Day reports.

He said: “ Where is your integrity when your own Chief of Army Staff (Minimah) stood up and said his Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces (sic) has no WAEC. How? Please let us be sincere with ourselves. Because you should have stood up and said ‘no’; because you were there, you could not. If you leave the job, is it the end of your life? If you leave the job there are other ways; better ways God can bless your life.”
During the Buhari certificate saga preceding the 2015 elections, Buhari claimed that his original WAEC certificate was with the military authorities but the military denied it.
The new defence minister described the president as man of integrity who had clearly and openly shown that he was ready to fight the insurgency in Nigeria.