Pro-gressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate in the February 14
election, Gen-eral Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) was temporarily doused
Wednesday as Government College, formerly Provincial Secondary School,
Katsina, released his secondary school certificate examination
re-sults reports Daily Times.
The results showed that Buhari undertook the Uni-versity of Cambridge
West African School Certificate Ex-aminations and obtained five
credits in English Language, Geography, Hausa Language, History, and
Health Science. The statement of result was signed by the current
principal of Katsina College, dated January 21, 2015. The results also
shows that the APC presidential candi-date failed in Mathematics and
Woodwork and had a pass in Literature in English.
The examination centre number was 8280, while Bu-hari's candidate
number was 002.
The statement of results printed on the letter head pa-per of the
Katsina State Min-istry of Education also shows that the examination
took place in 1961. The computer printout from University of
Cam-bridge also shows the result of 17 other candidates at the centre,
including Shehu Yar'Adua, a former Chief of Staff, Supreme
Headquarters.
Recall that the Nigerian Army had earlier admitted on Tuesday said it
did not have the original true copies of Buhari's certificate.
Meanwhile, Buhari at a press briefing in Kano ex-pressed surprise at
the con-troversy generated by the issue, adding that he only consented
to speak on the is-sue because of the genuine concern expressed by
many supporters and other well-meaning Nigerians.
He said: "I had assumed all along that all my records were in the
custody of the Military Secretary of the Nigerian Army. Much to my
surprise, we are now told that although a record of the re-sult is
available, there are no copies of the certificates in my personal
file. This is why I formally requested my old school the Provincial
Second-ary School, Katsina (which is now known as Government College,
Katsina) to make available the school's copy of the result of the
Cambridge/West African School Certifi-cate".
The APC presidential stan-dard bearer disclosed that he not only
attended Provincial Secondary School, Katsina but graduated in 1961
with many prominent Nigerians, including General Shehu Yar'adua,
former chief of staff at the Supreme Head-quarters, and Justice Umaru
Abdullahi, a former Presi-dent of the Court of Appeal.
"We sat for the University of Cambridge/WASC Ex-amination together in
1961, the year we graduated. My examination number was 8280002, and I
passed the examination in the Second Division,"Buhari added.
He said the issue in the forthcoming campaign can-not be his
certificate which he obtained 53 years ago, not-ing that the issues in
the elec-tion "are the scandalous level of unemployment of millions of
our young people, the state of insecurity, the pervasive official
corruption which has impoverished our people and the lack of concern
of the government for anything other than the retention of power at
all costs".
Meanwhile, the campaign or-ganisation of President Goodluck Jonathan
insisted that Gen. Buhari had failed to discharge the duties imposed
on him by the Electoral Act and that the APC candidate should withdraw
from the race.
A statement by the organisation, signed by Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode,
ac-cused Buhari of perjury.
It also decried the reported attack on President Jonathan's convoy in
Katsina State. The campaign organization said that the action of the
"miscreants" had threatened the recent peace pact that Jonathan,
Buhari and oth-er political leaders signed in Abuja.
On perjury, which the campaign tagged as: "And Buhari lies on oath",
the campaign group noted that Buhari in Kano explained his
controversial affidavit that his cre-dentials were with the military
by saying that his deposition was based on assumption.
On Tuesday, the Army denied be-ing in the custody of any credential of
the Army General, whether origi-nal or certified true copy. The
campaign organisation stat-ed: "The implication of the action of this
so-called "Mr Clean" is noth-ing but perjury and we all know that this
is a grave criminal offence un-der our laws and constitution."
It urged Buhari and the APC "to do the right thing and tender an
unreserved apology to the Nigerian people, throw in the towel and
re-port to the nearest police station for interrogation and
prosecution."
The Jonathan campaign organ-isation added: "Anything less than that
would be an insult to the collec-tive intelligence and integrity of
the Nigerian people."
--HotFMOwerri
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