More light have been thrown on the controversy surrounding the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari and his release of a Toronto certificate to online media instead of INEC by Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd)'s scholastic narrative.
The situation in Nigeria pre and post Independent where unqualified people are favoured against the qualified, made it impossible for due process to be followed by Northerners who wanted to join the army or high institutions.
Buhari joined the army in 1962 and less than 2 months to this date, he has a letter claiming to be a student. He was six months in Military training school and went to UK and stayed six months for 3 years course, there was no time in record that Buhari went back to college to complete his secondary school.
According to Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd) writing, "By 1960, shortly after Nigeria's independence, the Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, had directed the Principal of King's College, Lagos, Mr. P.H. Davies, to provide places, annually, for at least 15 boys from the North, whether or not they passed the requisite regular entrance examination."
--- Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd) in "Nigeria's Five Majors" p. 36, published first in 1981.
"In an attempt to catch up militarily with the South, the Northern politicians had thrown out all discretion. They had lowered standards of admission drastically, settling for the minimum. For as I recalled, all the Northerners in my intake had been trained at the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot. And they had become officers after barely six months of military training, whereas those of us who had been sent to Sandhurst had had to do two long years to earn the Queen's Commission. The implications were quite clear - and most disturbing. Not only had these Northerners become commissioned officers before we were half-way...
through our first year at Sandhurst, they had all risen to the enviable rank of Captain before we could even appear at the sovereign's parade which served essentially as a prerequisite for our passing out as Second Lieutenants."
--- Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd) in "Nigeria's Five Majors, pages 12 - 13, Published 1981.
"By 1964 a group of young Nigerian officer-cadets, mostly Northerners, had been declared academically unfit and hence repatriated by the Canadian military authorities. These cadets were however pronounced commissioned by the Nigerian Federal Government no sooner than they had arrived at the Ikeja Airport. Consequently they had had to be absorbed into the Nigerian Army as commissioned officers, even though they had received no requisite military training."
----- Col Ben Gbulie (rtd) in "Nigeria's Five Majors" page 13, published 1981.
"Zak (Maimalari) had held the rank of Captain in 1960. But before my return from the United Kingdom in 1963, he had soared to the top rank of Brigadier. In other words, he had risen from Captain to Temporary/Major, to Substantive/Major, to Temporary/Lieutenant-Colonel, to Substantive/Colonel and then to Brigadier, all within that short span of time. It was just scandalous".

Source? Don't ask, read Col. Gbulie's book.

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Buhari school principal wrote to the military in his letter of recommendation that "BUHARI WILL PASS...
That is self explanatory that GMB never finished secondary education not to talk of having a certificate.

The truth is that his so called missing certificate only existed in the imagination of his school principal.

shut up

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Ben Gbulie should not join the bandwagon but tell the kids the truth. This is the sort of story we are used to when we are kids, that Hausa's are all illiterates, that at the London constitution conference , Ahmadu Bello and Balewa cannot write their own names and Zik had to hold their hands to write it with them.

That when tea and bread was served them, that they asked Zik whether they should dunk the bread in the tea or eat or eat the bread and drink the tea separately and Zik told them in Hausa while pretending to be praying.
And finally Zik hold the key to the River Niger, if he ever get angry he will turn it off.

By the time Buhari joined the army, teachers in the north were mostly the British and the Igbos. Most of the civil service post were occupied by Ndigbo until the 1966 fracas. The same with the army, it was the Igbos and the Yorubas that dominated the army when the British left. If he now is saying that Buhari got a preferential treatment, so southerners granted him such they could not grand their own people?

This is why I don't and will never believe the workability of one Nigeria, because of all these lies crooked politicians and so called elders tell young kids and they will grow up with them and believing them and it will continue to shape their thoughts. I am sure Its the same they tell them in the north too about us.

jerseyboy:
Malla turn Nigeria upside down right from the beginning

and they still want us close our eyes to take us to the dark days

TheFreeOne:
Buhari school principal wrote to the military in his letter of recommendation that "BUHARI WILL PASS...
That is self explanatory that GMB never finished secondary education not to talk of having a certificate.

The truth is that his so called missing certificate only existed in the imagination of his school principal.

So he has a principal now?
Last week and the week before, it was that he never saw the four walls of school at all, let alone passing or will pass.

And some kids are here saying he had but lost his school certificate. Thanks to history. All I know is that if Buhari contests this election with this statement of result, then forgery has been officially legalized in Nigeria.

Eziachi:
Ben Gbulie should not join the bandwagon but tell the kids the truth. This is the sort of story we are used to when we are kids, that Hausa's are all illiterates, that at the London constitution conference , Ahmadu Bello and Balewa cannot write their own names and Zik had to hold their hands to write it with them.

That when tea and bread was served them, that they asked Zik whether they should dunk the bread in the tea or eat or eat the bread and drink the tea separately and Zik told them in Hausa while pretending to be praying.
And finally Zik hold the key to the River Niger, if he ever get angry he will turn it off.

By the time Buhari joined the army, teachers in the north were mostly the British and the Igbos. Most of the civil service post were occupied by Ndigbo until the 1966 fracas. The same with the army, it was the Igbos and the Yorubas that dominated the army when the British left. If he now is saying that Buhari got a preferential treatment, so southerners granted him such they could not grand their own people?

This is why I don't and will never believe the workability of one Nigeria, because of all these lies crooked politicians and so called elders tell young kids and they will grow up with them and believing them and it will continue to shape their thoughts. I am sure Its the same they tell them in the north too about us.

Col Gbulie isn't joining any bandwagon OK, this is a book published in 1981 when even Buhari never thought of becoming Head of State. Besides what he wrote in that book is what we all know except you pretend otherwise.

Eziachi:
So he has a principal now?
Last week and the week before, it was that he never saw the four walls of school at all, let alone passing or will pass.

Gush give it up man. I am surprised you are defending this mess. I don't think anyone has said he didn't see the four walls of a school but rather that he doesn't have a certificate issued to students after their studies. That letter from the principal has even vindicated those who believe Buhari like many others got preferential treatment when more qualified candidates were thrown out. How can you defend getting into the army with just a letter of recommendations with no result/certificate?

Eziachi:
Ben Gbulie should not join the bandwagon but tell the kids the truth. This is the sort of story we are used to when we are kids, that Hausa's are all illiterates, that at the London constitution conference , Ahmadu Bello and Balewa cannot write their own names and Zik had to hold their hands to write it with them.

That when tea and bread was served them, that they asked Zik whether they should dunk the bread in the tea or eat or eat the bread and drink the tea separately and Zik told them in Hausa while pretending to be praying.
And finally Zik hold the key to the River Niger, if he ever get angry he will turn it off.

By the time Buhari joined the army, teachers in the north were mostly the British and the Igbos. Most of the civil service post were occupied by Ndigbo until the 1966 fracas. The same with the army, it was the Igbos and the Yorubas that dominated the army when the British left. If he now is saying that Buhari got a preferential treatment, so southerners granted him such they could not grand their own people?

This is why I don't and will never believe the workability of one Nigeria, because of all these lies crooked politicians and so called elders tell young kids and they will grow up with them and believing them and it will continue to shape their thoughts. I am sure Its the same they tell them in the north too about us.

The furiousness surrounding the execution of July 29, 1966 coup by the soldiers from northern region of Nigeria was predicated on the fear that most of them would have been discharged from the armed forces. In fact, one of the instigators of January 15, 1966 coup was the scandalous behavior of NPC government especially on the intake composition of the officers cadre of Nigerian armed forces.

Eziachi:
So he has a principal now?
Last week and the week before, it was that he never saw the four walls of school at all, let alone passing or will pass.

So? What has buhari been telling us weeks before now

Affidavit. Military board - IBB boys - PDP e.t.c being responsible for the missing of a non-existent certificate. Does that portray him as a learned individual

And now they've presented a "questionable" certificate. We are watching cos nigerians aint fools.

That some Nigerians even consider Buhari good enough to be president shows how low we have sunk.

For me, I would vote GEJ a thousand times over.
An educated man over a cattle rearer
A democrat over a dictator
PDP over APC.
GEJ MUST rule till 19

As at 1961, WASC grading system was just A, C, P and F. The new grading system of A1, B2, C5 etc was introduced in the mid 90's. So how did Buhari made C5 in English Language in 1961?

More facts emerging and more to follow.

Excuse for the gods

APContherun:

Gush give it up man. I am surprised you are defending this mess. I don't think anyone has said he didn't see the four walls of a school but rather that he doesn't have a certificate issued to students after their studies. That letter from the principal has even vindicated those who believe Buhari like many others got preferential treatment when more qualified candidates were thrown out. How can you defend getting into the army with just a letter of recommendations with no result/certificate?

It's not a mess, it political self motivated mess, it could be you tomorrow.

TheFreeOne:


So? What has buhari been telling us weeks before now

Affidavit. Military board - IBB boys - PDP e.t.c being responsible for the missing of a non-existent certificate. Does that portray him as a learned individual

And now they've presented a "questionable" certificate. We are watching cos nigerians aint fools.

The problem is not Buhari, the problem is you and me from the south that looked down on northerners. With attitude like, you wonder why hate us. The certificate saga is a bid to humiliate the very one they regardless as their hero.
Obasanjo tried his luck with Ikemba to humiliate Ndigbo but we refused to give him the satisfaction.

2015 is the year of a country called "Nigeria". This election would go down in history,as the most electrifying and decisive election,in the history of Nigeria. A lot of truths about the mess from the past,would be brought to limelight and Nigerians would get more enlightened about their country. This piece up there,explains a lot of things and why Nigeria is where it is today.

I think this is another front page material. Mods pls do the needful.

Duru1:



The furiousness surrounding the execution of July 29, 1966 coup by the soldiers from northern region of Nigeria was predicated on the fear that most of them would have been discharged from the armed forces. In fact, one of the instigators of January 15, 1966 coup was the scandalous behavior of NPC government especially on the intake composition of the officers cadre of Nigerian armed forces.

Do changed the line of history with conspiracy theories. We knew why they were furious. That our boys killed their god- Ahmadu Bello.

It keeps getting more interesting.

APContherun:
More light have been thrown on the controversy surrounding the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari and his release of a Toronto certificate to online media instead of INEC by Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd)'s scholastic narrative.
The situation in Nigeria pre and post Independent where unqualified people are favoured against the qualified, made it impossible for due process to be followed by Northerners who wanted to join the army or high institutions.
Buhari joined the army in 1962 and less than 2 months to this date, he has a letter claiming to be a student. He was six months in Military training school and went to UK and stayed six months for 3 years course, there was no time in record that Buhari went back to college to complete his secondary school.
According to Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd) writing, "By 1960, shortly after Nigeria's independence, the Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, had directed the Principal of King's College, Lagos, Mr. P.H. Davies, to provide places, annually, for at least 15 boys from the North, whether or not they passed the requisite regular entrance examination."
--- Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd) in "Nigeria's Five Majors" p. 36, published first in 1981.
"In an attempt to catch up militarily with the South, the Northern politicians had thrown out all discretion. They had lowered standards of admission drastically, settling for the minimum. For as I recalled, all the Northerners in my intake had been trained at the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot. And they had become officers after barely six months of military training, whereas those of us who had been sent to Sandhurst had had to do two long years to earn the Queen's Commission. The implications were quite clear - and most disturbing. Not only had these Northerners become commissioned officers before we were half-way...
through our first year at Sandhurst, they had all risen to the enviable rank of Captain before we could even appear at the sovereign's parade which served essentially as a prerequisite for our passing out as Second Lieutenants."
--- Col. Ben Gbulie (rtd) in "Nigeria's Five Majors, pages 12 - 13, Published 1981.
"By 1964 a group of young Nigerian officer-cadets, mostly Northerners, had been declared academically unfit and hence repatriated by the Canadian military authorities. These cadets were however pronounced commissioned by the Nigerian Federal Government no sooner than they had arrived at the Ikeja Airport. Consequently they had had to be absorbed into the Nigerian Army as commissioned officers, even though they had received no requisite military training."
----- Col Ben Gbulie (rtd) in "Nigeria's Five Majors" page 13, published 1981.
"Zak (Maimalari) had held the rank of Captain in 1960. But before my return from the United Kingdom in 1963, he had soared to the top rank of Brigadier. In other words, he had risen from Captain to Temporary/Major, to Substantive/Major, to Temporary/Lieutenant-Colonel, to Substantive/Colonel and then to Brigadier, all within that short span of time. It was just scandalous".

Source? Don't ask, read Col. Gbulie's book.

This book is not on Amazon , pls I need a copy at least for my kids, any help?

HisRoyalHardnes:
That some Nigerians even consider Buhari good enough to be president shows how low we have sunk.

For me, I would vote GEJ a thousand times over.
An educated man over a cattle rearer
A democrat over a dictator
PDP over APC.
GEJ MUST rule till 19

^^^The bolded is one of the reasons i get exasperated with this country!

From the 60s to date, the rest of the country has been bending over backwards to accommodate the Hausa/Fulani......even to our own detriment! And the annoying thing is that even with all the affirmative action they've had (a case in point being Buhari being allowed into the military without having the minimum requirements, and raising to the rank of general and head of state), they still have a sense of entitlement to this day, and still can't compete on a level playing field: they want quota-system and federal character retained; and they don't want true fiscal federalism, so everyone can develop at their own pace and not be held back by those not interested in western education and competition!

I don't know about others, but i want out!!

OP, I didn't see Buhari's name in that write up at all. Col. Gbulie never mentioned Buhari so why are you lying with his name and putting the man's reputation on the line?

Certificate or no certificate. . . . .
Nigerians deserve THE ILLITERATES THEY PRAY FOR!
Amen!

Eziachi:

Do changed the line of history with conspiracy theories. We knew why they were furious. That our boys killed their God- Ahmadu Bello.

^^^If you think all was sweeeet, and they looked upon Igbos with brotherly love and kindness up until the unfortunate Nzeogwu led coup that took out their leader Ahmadu Bello....if you think this was the case then you're dangerously uniformed!

It's gullible and uninformed guys like you that they hack down first when they start one of their numerous ethno-religious inspired slaughters......because you let your guard down and leave yourself exposed!

KanwuliaJara:
Certificate or no certificate. . . . .
Nigerians deserve THE ILLITERATES THEY PRAY FOR!
Amen!

asawo granmama ve arrive. hotel no de for actn wit greargranpapa?

And this was way back in 1981.
They pushed themselves up by lowering academic standards in the military and civil service just to hang on to power. No wonder Bamayi cried out that the south wants to take away the only thing that they have allocated to themselves - Power.

The only educated northern officers were IBB n MM others were promoted by recommendations by the Fulani cabal

It is easier to graduate with good grades and get a job as a Hausa than Yoruba or Igbo yet the cut off point for common entrance for the North is between 2 to 30 marks while the south is 60 to 75 marks.

No to mediocrity

GEJ till 2019

This certificate sha