President Muhammadu Buhari’s media aide, Garba Shehu, said certificate forgery involving Kemi Adeosun, former Finance Minister, is worse than Isa Ali Pantami’s past association with terror groups.
He was speaking during an interview on Channels TV on Friday.
Adeosun was forced to resign in 2018 over her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exemption certificate which was alleged to have been forged.
Pantami, the Communications Minister, expressed views in support of Al-Qaeda and Taliban during his lectures in the 2000s.
The Islamic preacher later explained that his views had changed but there are calls for his resignation. The presidency, however, dismissed the demand.
Shehu said in the case of Pantami, “you are probing the thoughts, what is called ‘McCarthyism’; you search the inner recesses of the minds of individuals, bring out things they have said or they are about to say or you think they would say and use that against them.”
“If Pantami had forged certificate before coming into office, the attitude would have been different”, he added.
