The President of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal
between 1999 and 2009, Justice Umaru Abdullahi,
on Wednesday said he sat for the West African
School Certificate exams in 1961 alongside
Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress.
BY MUSIKILU MOJEED
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The President of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal
between 1999 and 2009, Justice Umaru Abdullahi,
on Wednesday said he sat for the West African
School Certificate exams in 1961 alongside
Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress.
Former Preisdent of Nigeria's Court of Appeal,
Umaru Abdullahi
In an interview with Leadership newspaper
Wednesday, Justice Abdullahi, 75, said he and a
few other prominent Nigerians were Mr. Buhari’s
classmates at the Provincial Secondary School,
Katsina (now Government College, Katsina) and
that the APC candidate was among the most
brilliant students then.
“I, Buhari and some others had the best results
during our final examinations in secondary school
back then,” Leadership quoted the retired judge
as saying. “He was a very brilliant student in
school, no doubt; we attended the same school
from primary to secondary school.”
The report also quoted a retired Inspector General
of Police, Ibrahim Coomasie, as confirming Mr.
Buhari’s attendance and graduation from Katsina
Provincial College.
The paper quoted Mr. Coomassie as saying,
“While we were in school, Buhari was the head
boy. He loves playing football. We were all close
friends in school. After we finished secondary
school, General Buhari decided to join the military,
I joined the police and Justice Abdullahi decided
to go to the university.”
“I, the late Shehu Yar’Adua, the late Halilu, a
Grand Khadi in Katsina, Senator Abdul Ali, a
Senator in the 2nd Republic and several other
attended the same school.”
Messrs Abdullahi and Coomassie spoke following
the controversy over Mr. Buhari’s academic
credential.
The PDP had accused the APC presidential
candidate of not possessing the requisite
academic qualification to stand for election.
On Wednesday, Mr. Buhari addressed a press
conference in Kano explaining that he attended
and sat for WASC exam with some prominent
Nigerians still alive.
“… let me say for the record that I attended
Provincial Secondary School, Katsina. I 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,” the APC candidate said. “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.”
A few hours after Mr. Buhari’s speech, PREMIUM
TIMES exclusively made public the APC
candidate’s statement of result as well as a
master list from the University of Cambridge
containing the results of his classmates.
The two documents were made available by Mr.
Buhari’s old school, Government College, Katsina.
The statement of results is printed on the letter
head paper of the Katsina State Ministry of
Education, and it shows that the examination
took place in 1961.
The Cambridge print out also shows the result of
17 other candidates at the centre, including Shehu
Yar’Adua, a former Chief of Staff, Supreme
Headquarters.
Controversy over Mr. Buhari’s result escalated
Tuesday after the Nigerian Army, which had
earlier admitted to having copies of his certificate,
reversed itself, saying it could not even attest to
the details listed in his records.
The spokesperson of the Army, Olajide Laleye,
said “Neither the original copy, certified true copy
(CTC) nor statement of result of Major-.Gen.
Mohammadu Buhari‘s WASC result is in his
personal file.”
He said while it is the practice in the Nigerian
Army that before candidates are shortlisted for
commissioning into the officers’ cadre of the
service, the selection board verifies the original
copies of credentials as presented, “There is no
available record to show that this process was
followed in the 1960s.”
The military’s comments came after the retired
general had said that his lost copies of results
were with the Army, an explanation he gave
ahead of elections February 14.
Mr. Buhari expressed shock at the claim and told
the media in Kano, Wednesday, that he had given
the controversy no serious thought until the
intervention by the military.
But even after the documents, which appear to
corroborate Mr. Buhari’s claims about his
credentials, became public, the PDP presidential
campaign organization questioned its authenticity
and accused the APC candidate of forgery and
perjury.
The spokesperson for the PDP presidential
campaign, Femi Fani-Kayode told journalists
Wednesday, “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.
“We urge Buhari and his party to do the right
thing, tender an unreserved apology to the
Nigerian people. He should throw in the towel and
report to the nearest police station for
interrogation and prosecution. Anything less than
that would be an insult to the collective
intelligence and integrity of the Nigerian people.”


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Is Minimah no longer COAS? Did anybody actually expect the army to produce evidence of Buhari's certificates?

See Fani com chop trying to form integrity!

Things dey happen for this country oo

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