Finally, Buhari's School Result has been Released

The results showed that Buhari undertook the Uni­versity of Cambridge West African School Certificate Ex­aminations 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 candi­date failed in Mathematics and Woodwork and had a pass in Literature in English.
The examination centre number was 8280, while Bu­hari’s candidate number was 002.
The statement of results printed on the letter head pa­per of the Katsina State Min­istry of Education also shows that the examination took place in 1961.
The computer printout from University of Cam­bridge 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 ex­pressed surprise at the con­troversy generated by the issue, adding that he only consented to speak on the is­sue 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 re­sult is available, there are no copies of the certificates in my personal file. This is why I formally requested my old school the Provincial Second­ary 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 Certifi­cate”.
The APC presidential stan­dard 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 Head­quarters, and Justice Umaru Abdullahi, a former Presi­dent of the Court of Appeal.
“We sat for the University of Cambridge/WASC Ex­amination 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 can­not be his certificate which he obtained 53 years ago, not­ing that the issues in the elec­tion “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 or­ganisation 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, ac­cused 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 oth­er 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 cre­dentials were with the military by saying that his deposition was based on assumption.
On Tuesday, the Army denied be­ing in the custody of any credential of the Army General, whether origi­nal or certified true copy.
The campaign organisation stat­ed: “The implication of the action of this so-called “Mr Clean” is noth­ing but perjury and we all know that this is a grave criminal offence un­der 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 re­port to the nearest police station for interrogation and prosecution.”
The Jonathan campaign organ­isation added: “Anything less than that would be an insult to the collec­tive intelligence and integrity of the Nigerian people.”
It also urged “the Nigerian Armed Forces to consider the possibility of stripping him (Buhari) of his rank and privileges given the fact that he was never qualified to join the Nigerian army as a commissioned officer in the first place because he never had the prerequisite quali­fications which was a school cer­tificate. Given this, at best Buhari should never have been anything more than a non-commissioned of­ficer.”

The controversy sur­rounding the academic credentials of the All Pro­gressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate in the February 14 election, Gen­eral Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) was temporarily doused Wednesday as Government College, formerly Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, released his secondary school certificate examination re­sults.