Senator Dino Melaye has queried President Muhammadu Buhari’s presence at the Global Education Summit in the United Kingdom with his level of literacy.
He described Buhari as a school cert failure and wondered what he would be doing at the summit.
FirstNews had reported the president’s departure for London to attend the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 in the UK.
But reacting to this, the former lawmaker said the president’s presence at the event was as good as his absence, stating that he has nothing to offer academically.
He said it would have been better the country was represented by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo at the global summit.
Melaye spoke in a video he tweeted on his official Twitter handle.
He said, “It is very funny that President Muhammadu Buhari has gone to London to attend the Global Education Summit.
“It is funny and it is outing Nigeria in a very bad shape because I’m wondering what President Buhari will be discussing in a global education summit.
“This is the man that has just a secondary school certificate, a school cert failure and unfortunately, that certificate is even missing. We have not seen it, no copy of it.
“And you are going to a global education summit where you have professors emeritus. Where you have intellectual mobile characters. And Buhari is going to sit down and discuss what?
“I was even thinking that he would send someone like the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo to go and interact. Except the president is going to be deaf and dumb in the summit.
“Except he is he is going there to be an observer, I’m imagining what President Buhari is going there to discuss.
“It is a shame that Nigeria is not represented in this global summit because we have a president who has nothing to offer, who is intellectually stagnant, who has no capacity academically.
“Present Buhari should have told us that he is going for medical not Global education summit”.