Femi Fani-Kayode, the director of media, Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, has been accused of “forging an email” in a desperate bid to discredit the statement of result released by Muhammadu Buhari’s school last week. On Friday, TheCable had published the confirmation of the University of Cambridge that Hausa was one of the examinations undertaken by students for the University of Cambridge West African School Certificate Examinations back in 1961. The subject of whether or not Hausa could have been a subject back in 1961 has been one of the talking points of Buhari’s statement of result available to public, with claims that the subject was not offered in the examination until the 1970s. On Monday, Suraj Oyewale, a chattered accountant and blogger, said Fani-Kayode twisted an email from Cambridge Assessment on the same matter and then sent false information to media houses, in order to mislead the public into believing that Hausa Language was not an examination paper in 1961. “I was on my way to work on the morning of Monday, January 26, 2015, when my friend, Sodiq Alabi, sent me a Facebook message asking me how to contact THISDAY newspapers since I am more familiar with newspaper houses as a regular contributor to issues in national dailies,” Oyewale said. “Sodiq included in the message a web link to an article in THISDAY newspaper with the title, “Cambridge University: Hausa Language Not Offered in 1961 Exams”. I opened the article to see these lines: The controversy over the secondary school results of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, continues as the University of Cambridge has said that Hausa Language, which is one of the subjects listed by Buhari, was not offered in its examinations in 1961. The disclosure was contained a statement from the office of the Director of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation claiming it came though an e-mail dated Thursday, January 22, 2015 from the institution’s Archives Delivery Service Officer, Jacky Emerson, to one SODIQ ALABI who requested for confirmation if the examination body offered Hausa Language in the 1961 West African Certificate Examination it organised. Emerson, in his one-sentence reply, said: “According to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa, WERE NOT included for West African School Certificate.” This development may have further cast doubts on the certificate which is purported to be General Buhari’s. He is yet to react to the assertion by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation that the document (the published certificate) was forged and illegally procured.” (Capitalizations mine) Oyewale said Sodiq was shocked at such falsehood attributed to him by Fani Kayode and he wanted to contact the editor of THISDAY for such wicked misrepresentation. “Sodiq Alabi (sodiqalabi@hotmail.com) had written an email to Cambridge Assessment, the brand name of University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicates, on January 22, 2015, 13.31 hours, to confirm whether Hausa was truly offered by it in 1961 examinations. “By 4.10pm same day, Jacky Emerson (archives@cambridgeassessment.org.uk), Archive Services Delivery officer of Cambridge Assessment, replied thus: ‘Dear Sodiq Alabi, According to the Regulations of 1961, African Language papers, WERE SET for West Africa School Certificate’. “A screenshot of this email exchange was shared to us on Facebook by Sodiq and it went viral on the Internet. The email triggered other Nigerians to send emails to Cambridge Assessment for independent confirmation and the school came out with a release on its website the next day. “In the release titled, ‘Statement in response to Nigerian Presidential election enquiries’, the school stated: ‘The organisation also confirmed that according to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa WERE SET for the West African School Certificate. Here is the link to the Cambridge Assessment website where this confirmation was published: http://cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/. The email from Cambridge “It is however surprising that Femi Fani-Kayode went ahead to alter the content of Sodiq’s email in his press statement to, ‘According to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa, WERE NOT included for West African School Certificate’ and still quoted the email as the source. “It is very unfortunate that this is the man speaking for the president’s re-election campaign. How do we believe every other “fact” he has quoted has not been altered as well? It is a shame. “It is also very unfortunate that our newspapers have gone to sleep and investigative journalism is at its lowest ebb in Nigeria. How will Femi Fani-Kayode not be feeding newspaper reporters with lies when he knows how lazy some of our journalists have become? This is not an advertorial that does not require independent confirmation; all THISDAY and Daily Post that reported this Fani-Kayode’s glaring lie need to do is to seek out Sodiq or confirm from Cambridge – which had posted a confirmation statement on conduct of Hausa language in 1961 WASC on its website since January 23, two days before Fani-Kayode came up with this lie – and ask for their side of the story. “It is particularly curious that I had, in an earlier article sent to THISDAY which was published in its January 25 edition, attached a screenshot of the email from Sodiq to buttress some other arguments. So THISDAY editors, at least their OP-ED editor, could not have claimed not to have seen the original content of Sodiq’s email before Fani-Kayode’s alteration. “This is not the first time President Jonathan’s men are forging or altering documents to demonize anyone perceived as the president’s ‘enemy’. His new media assistant, Reno Omokri, was also busted in February last year, when he hid under a pseudonym, Wendel Simlin, to send false but damaging reports to newspapers to demonize the then just suspended Governor Lamido Sanusi of Central Bank. A dig into the source of the computer used in typing the document showed it was a certain Reno Omokri that authored it! How lowly can people get? Efforts to get Fani-Kayode’s response to the allegation had yielded no result at the time of going to press, as calls to his phone were neither answered nor returned. He also did not reply a text message to his phone

Read more at: http://www.thecable.ng/fani-kayode-accused-forging-email-disclaim-buharis-statement-result | TheCable

That is a baseless accusation.

FFk anoda lie from a womenizer
u day are number and master


buhari is ok

SeverusSnape:
That is a baseless accusation.

On point

gej supporters are shameless, when is GEJ going to prove the authenticity of his Phd (Portharcourt Degree)?

this rubbbish is becoming boring....FFK is a renowned hashole

I pity FFK...the kind of prison he would go to should GMB wins, would be worst dan Mandela's own in cayman island...total seclusion!

MODS FP PLEASE

Hay Fee Cee trying to light a fire to deflect from their fraudulent acts of forgery.

Mods front page, this is how you've refused to put Sambo's anti Christian rant on the front page . We know you've been paid off by PDP but at least try and be fair

PDP Presidential team will stoop at any length to malign the integrity of Muhammadu Buhari including altering content of emails. This is wicked and must be condemned by all. Nigerians shine yout eyes, GEJ and his team have nothing to offer but fraud. Vote Buhari

Nothing on this earth will save FFK from the jail he has been destined to serve after May 29.That man is a nauseating,lying,accursed human being.

That is baseless accusations. All in the bid to dent GEJ. It will certainly not work for them. Bringing in all sorts of lies because of politics.
PDP is the ruling party.

I can't just imagine why ffk is just desperate of making a hill out of a mole concerning buhari,s certificate,what is he afraid of? Well whatever it is that he is afraid of will eventually over run him,there is no doubt about it,he is just a drowning man that is trying to clutch at a straw, coz for the past weeks now, what he talks about is buhari,s certificate.

That is baseless accusations. All in the bid to
dent GEJ. It will certainly not work for them.
Bringing in all sorts of lies because of politics.
PDP is the ruling party.

bamidele029:
Mods front page, this is how you've refused to put Sambo's anti Christian rant on the front page . We know you've been paid off by PDP but at least try and be fair

Rilwayne001:
MODS FP PLEASE

APPROVED, MODS DO THE NEEDFUL!

Are the mods in politics section all supporters of PDP.. Send this topic to FP please

vedaxcool:


They all don't have a Phd (Port Harcourt Degree) yet they are way smarter than gej!

let us wait and see failbuhari.

Fani Kayode lost the little integrity left in his lineage when he openly told the world he has slept with the Beautiful Bianca, wife of Ojukwu. So, forging an email address just to soil someone's name just for him to feed shouldn't be a big deal. He will be dumped very soon. GMB has come to stay. Kill ursef over dis assertion, Nigeria moves on.

FFK is a bloody desperado.

FFK will soon meet his waterloo just a matter of time.

Redoil:
let us wait and see failbuhari.

Point of correction, it is FeBuhari!

Sai Buhari till GEJ can define Job Security and burn his port harcourt degree (Phd)

vedaxcool:


Point of correction, it is FeBuhari!

Sai Buhari till GEJ can define Job Security and burn his port harcourt degree (Phd)

chai buhari kai buhari. Mai buhari. Failbuhari. Choose one or choose all.

what a shame!

#GMB till TAN's get better jobs.

I remember Wendell Simillin

Redoil:
[s]chai buhari kai buhari. Mai buhari. Failbuhari. [/s]Choose one or choose all.

another victim of Port Harcourt Degree (Phd)

nicklaus40:
On Monday, Suraj Oyewale , a chattered accountant and blogger, said Fani-Kayode
Read more at: http://www.thecable.ng/fani-kayode-accused-forging-email-disclaim-buharis-statement-result | TheCable

Jarus, good job. I wonder the type of journalists we have in Nigeria.

A plane was about to crash and there were only
four parachutes in the plane. Meanwhile there
were five passengers in it .The first passenger
was Cristiano Ronaldo and he said: I'm the best
footballer, I cant die now". So he took one
parachute and jumped out of the plane. The
second passenger was Aliko Dangote and he
said
"I'm the richest man in Africa and I'm too young
to
die". So he took the second parachute and
jumped
out of the plane. The third passenger was
General
Buhari and. he said: " I'm the person with the
highest integrity in Nigeria and I'm about to
win
presidency so I can't die now, my people still
need
me". So he took one and jumped out of the
plane.Then the remaining two passengers left
were Pope Francis and a little school girl.The
Pope
said to the little girl "take the last parachute, I'll
sacrifice my life for you".The little girl replied
"No need for that. There are two parachutes
left".The Pope asked "How come?" The little girl
replied; "General Buhari took my school bag!"

I stopped taking FFK seriously since he went back to PDP.