₦airaland Forum

cococandy:
if that is from Cambridge university, I am Beyoncé

The supposed educated one.
Its not the Cambridge as in university. Cambridge WASC was the examnination board for secondary school GCE during the colonial era for both O'level and A'level.

You know what they will demand next in no particular order:

1. Why fail on Mathematics and the certificate of the re-sit
2. His birth certificate to determine whether he is from Chad.
3. His marriage certificate, to determine how many times he had married

He was meant to be dead three times ago, according to the government and the army? Was he resurrected too in Germany?

Nigerian last minute political groups.
Haven't we heard or seen it all before? Only that Nigerian had a very short memory.
Remember the infamous ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER NIGERIA group of Chief Abimbola Davis/Arthur Nzeribe used by IBB to truncate the 1993 election?
The latest group is Jonathan/PDP back door begging for a lesser opponent in the poll because eventhough I believe they had a strong chance of winning, they don't want to left it to chance as they had never been in this sort of corner before with any opposition party since 1999.

You can now see what all these is about. This people are afraid of this guy as a candidate. They begged INEC to disqualified him, INEC said they don't have such power and ask them to go to court.
For some reason they are ALLERGIC to courts. Now they are begging their political opponent to replace him with a beatable and easy candidate three weeks to the game.
Knowing Nigerian politics, I will not even be surprise that even within the APC, some will like such a scenario, so they can become a candidate through the back door. Opposition has no chance in hell of beating PDP without Buhari. PDP knew that it's easy ride for them without Buhari's personality cult in the north. This what all this is about.
What is happening was something predicted months ago that it will happen. It was a total mistake for Buhari/APC to have danced to trap by answering back, that what PDP want to talk about as there is no way they can talk about their record for the next three week. There is nothing left in their tank to talk about.
Even if he presented them with his MARKED exam papers, they will be asking for something else. When Obama like Buhari did finally bowed to the extremist bigots with his birth certificate, were they satisfied? No! The rather asked to see his birth midwife.

9jatatafo:
WAEC certificate is the evidence to show that one passed through secondary education before proceeding to a higher level. So what is GMB telling us? I will never accept this his cooked up explanation. The Nigeria Constitution states clearly that for you to aspire to the post of the president, you must obtain at least WAEC. He knows this and INEC stated it of which GMB agreed to know. Also INEC provided also that all contestants must provide their education certificates for verification, Buhari agreed. My problem now is this, how come all other contestants provided their certificates, so why should GMB be an exception. As an educated Nigerian, if one gets admission to higher institution, you will be required to show your credentials both original and photocopies and later you will be given the originals to take home. On graduation, you must do verification before you will be cleared to graduate. So you are telling me that the Nigerian Army did not verify GMB's WAEC? I cry for this nation. If GMB have not collected his WAEC certificate, let him get his registration number, full names and year of exam, proceed to WAEC office and your certificate will be printed for you. Do the needful. God bless Nigeria

Did he ever mention the word WAEC? WAEC and Cambridge WASC are totally different point bodies that existed at different times. You are supposed to be educated.

twinstaiye:
Sheu Musa Yaradua started his army career in 1959, and Buhari said he graduated in 1961 with him, was it that Yaradua was in Secondary School and at the same time in the Army when he graduated and sat for Cambridge?

You must have known Yar Adua more than Buhari i TAKE IT or Yar Adua family are all dead, that he will lie against them?

hubreality:
I wonder why his then secondary school should be contacted and waited for while WAEC, the issuer of WAEC Certificates is readily available.

Story! Story! Story!! More Assumption Stories loading from the table of GMB and cohorts..

The so called educated. You don't know that Cambridge WASC or Oxford WASC no longer exist and was replaced later by WAEC through sub regional grouping including the Francophones? Cambridge WASC was exclusive to only British colonies of West Africa in them days.

BokoHaramm:
I bought a WAEC scratch card and checked that result. Lo and behold it didn't open maybe because WAEC didn't computerised that year own. Since GMB has the exam number he sould wave the certificate for journalist to see it

WASC and WAEC are similar but they are two different exam bodies from different generation. Some even foolishly don't know that, there was a time they they don't have a body called JAMB.

bushdoc9919:
I beleive GEJ certificates are genuine.....Nigerian unis are not so callous as to allow someone teach students with fake degrees.

Really because you did not see the teachers verification exercise. Its not about having certificate. Some had certificate but worse than those without. Leadership is not about certificate. Buhari's opponent are playing Nigerian politics of stereotype that northerners are all illiterate or got wherever they got through favours. But reality tell another story.
In quantity, southerners has higher number of those that went to school compared to northerners, but the few and the elite in the north that went to school especially in the colonial era, they are highly educated compared to most southerners with basket full of certificate but when they reason or open their mouth, they left nothing to be desired.
Ask yourself this: Since this certificate issue started, why hasn't PDP officially make a statement on it except hiding behind the social media through those that doesn't count like Olisa Metuh or FFK propping up gossips and innuendo?
Why has all northern politicians inside PDP kept mute? (Is it because they are fuming with the stereotype?)
The government in Katsina is PDP I would assume, why are they not involved?

aguiyi:
based on what

You now rest until you find another childish thing to talk about based on:
1. You now officially been told the school he attended (The school still exist not fictional)
2. You now know the years he attended the school.
3 You know now that he did not attend the school alone. His classmate were mentioned, prominent people, one still alive I believe
4. You now know what years he wrote his exam and his exam number (I don't even know where mine is, let alone my exam number)
5. You now know the name of the exam board Cambridge/WASC (Mine was Oxford/WASC)

I think he has said enough, and if I were him, I wouldn't even be bothered, but he understood that Nigeria is a peculiar country were gossip is treated as fact. Where people trample on their conscience in order to get advantage.

pekeyim:
W
Bros where the Certificate, no dey speak English? U no hear the Toronto saga? Abi na Mars u been dey?

People Forge documents to go to Foreign countries even where I Served, pple were upgrading their 3rd class to 2.1 to get jobs, are you that NAIVE or you are turning a blind eye?

That is another point. The Toronto college came out any deny ever awarding such a certificate. The secondary school or army schools that Buhari attended is still around. So the scenario you are painting has no bearing with this situation.

babestella:
I think NIGERIANS should begin to ask the foreign schools and army training formations Buhari attended and let's see if this gets messier or not. Nonsense, I can't come to terms with the fact that some highly educated people are clamoring support for such impunity and disregard for the rule of law and yet they are shouting change and promising to fight corruption, even the legal luminaries in theirs midst, it's such a shame. Is APC and Buhari they telling NIGERIANS that you can lie your way up to the top? Are they telling us we don't need education to become doctors, engineers, architects etc. We wait to see events unfold in the coming days.

You are answering your own question. How does one obtained a high education from the world most prestigious military school- the Sandhurst without a school certificate? He must be a genius and super intelligent.

BTFormular:
then let him send a letter to the war college to send us a copy of the waec result na. Na fight? Lmao

He doesn't need to because the law never demanded a hard copy, hence the affidavit.

If you are interested apply and they will give it to you.
No institution in the world accept a photocopy. Hence affidavit, which has a legal status. An affidavit is worldly acceptable where the original no longer exist.
Some of you is labelling another person as illiterate but a lack knowledge of most simple things a literate should know.

Huffington:
Simple Question: Buhari where is thy certificate?

Simple answer is he doesn't know.
You don't know where you birth certificate is does not mean that you don't exist.

woodcook:
Are you for real? I take it you really do not understand the grip the north had on Nigerian military back then and how they could do things that seem impossible.

This is a comment based on total lack of knowledge of Nigeria. Back then it's the south, especially the Igbo and Yoruba that dominated the Nigeria military. By 1967 the highest northern ranked northern person in the army was a Colonel. And a middle Beltan northerners to be precise. So do they have a grip? Learn and know your history.

warrior01:
The foundation of Buhari's career in the military is faulty. He claimed to have sat for WASC and obtained some grades which he can't substantiate as of today. Please note that he who come to equity must come with clean hands. He can't be preaching change whilst he's an embodiment of corruption and that's the problem. If we really want true change then we must learn to embrace and say the truth at all times.

What do mean by substantiate?
Do mean the original certificate awarded about 60 years ago?
When someone qualifications is in doubt you do two things: You check with the exam organizer and the school attended.
He claimed he has not got originals of his certificate which is very common. Like me and many others I have no idea where they are.
But he sworn affidavit to that effect that he attended Katsina College. Katsina College is still with us, have you or anyone approach this school to verify his claim? Because the onus is on you to disclaim is claim.
WASC or WAEC are still with us today. And again has anyone approach them to verify through their own record? If specific subjects were mentioned along with grades, the record will still be with WASC if they keep good record, because not all institutions has a perfect record keeping.
He went through various military educations in Nigeria, India, Britain and US, they are not fictional institutions, has anyone asked these military schools and they claimed the Buhari was a non existing person to them or did obtain a qualifications with them. If he miraculously fooled the Nigeria military, so he equally hoodwink those of Britain, United State and India?

Nigeria army is not only a school that he attended but equally his employer for many years. Those asking for original certification know that the argument is flawed because after 60 years, only few and most diligent individuals will still have the original of their birth or school certificate especially in Nigeria where record keeping is non existent.

KwoiZabo:
Kia APC can lie O which PDP lawyer? Buhari never finished school, if he had, he would have said so. Letter from principal is never an equivalent. His father could have walked into the Principal's office without Buhari being a student. The elections are over. More so we don't want an idol as President, want a human being that is loved or hated moderately not one set of people dying for you and others having a deep resentment for you.

Do you actually understand English language? The letter from the principal, means attestation attached to a result he will submit with the army on its authenticity, which was the norm when Nigeria has some ethnic and professionalism.
The problem is that young people today uses what is obtained today, by way of standard, morality a and poor quality standards to judge the past. But they are wrong.
Respond to what you read and not what you wanted to believe. 1961 was an era when the British still run the schools and Igbos plus Yoruba runs the military after the British. The north dominance of the military only started almost after the 1966 counter coup and civil war.
The argument over certificate is not only laughable to a neutral person, but insane as to the extent people can go when they are desperate and cornered.
Let's assume and agree with PDP that Buhari did not attend secondary school, but he did pass througb Sandhurst military school England of all places. So that makes him a first degree holder. Which makes the argument over a school certificate a waste of time.

Do you really need an expensive lawyers to tell you what your common sense and conscience can tell you for free.

korel9:
As foolish as APC e-goons are, one quarter of that crowd travelled with Buhari to Jigawa from Kano and most of them are just returning home back to Kano as I speak.

Wow! What a theory. You can make a good living, writing fiction.

DeCritique:
Aha!! Na so... Amaechi has finally met his match in the person of the next Governor of Rivers State, Ezenwo Wike. We are strongly behind you. What is good for the goose is equally good for the gander and should also be made available.

Amaechi should know that this is the property of Rivers State as a whole and he has no right to stop the President from making use of it come Jan. 28th. This one sided favouritism makes me so angry. APC uses it two times but you don't want the President to use it. Is something wrong with him?


#GEJ till Amaechi is promoted to "Head, Buhari's washing plate committee"!!

What was the criteria or conditions for obtaining permission for using the facilities?
Hope someone will provide the reasons for the refusal if it's really the case as things always not what it seems with politicians on a face value.

nkowaputa:
What do u expect of potential boko haramites?
Violence and destruction.

I thought he has a mammoth crowd of supporters over there, so where were they when this scanty miscreants were messing about with his posters? If they are really his posters.

showby:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.


"I hate Buhari's candidacy. Believe me, either Nigeria has the largest collection of idiots in the world or we as a nation, are not ready for genuine change. Buhari as a coupist and a presidential candidate, is an embarrassment to not only Nigerians, but to every black man or woman on the planet. Achebe captured it all before he joined his ancestors. Indeed, there was a country. Sad. Achebe captured it all before he joined his ancestors. Indeed, there was a country. I am a staunch democrat. I voted for Olu Falae against OBJ. I will never vote a coupist. It's that simple."
- Eluwilussit (Political Analyst)


Let's look for the light that can drive Nigeria's darkness away.

You forgot that Olu Falae you voted for was a minister in the same military government Mr democrat.

Before you start getting an erection over the Brookings institute, they are nothing both American version of Ohaneze, Arewa Consultative Council and many others.
Their members bothers right wing republicans sympathisers who see monetary gain and American world empire on every issue.

They were behind Bush when he invaded Iraq, they hated any tax raise for the rich and believe that tax cut for the rich is the way forward. They hate Obama and believed that he is a communist because of Obamacare.
There counterpart in the UK is the Chatham House. Moreover, this wasn't written by Brookings Institution but by someone else but publish on their website.

san316:
I don't have AIT or channels. I have CNN and BBC, are they showing it.

Why ask someone to tell you if the CNN and BBC you have is showing something when you can pick up your remote and check?

Some times those like the poster think that all persons here are kids, when they spread misinformation or some abject lies.
1. The organization Orlu Zurumee is an pressure group within the PDP formed under Udenwa to solidify his base but was hijacked from him by Ohakim loyalist in 2011 once Udenwa was out of power, through Hope Uzodinma, Elvis Agukwe and others, hence Udenwa moving to ACN in 2011 and returned back to PDP once Ohakim was voted out of office.
So the people you mentioned worked for Ohakim and not Rochas in 2011 and does not represent Orlu people. Cletus Ilomuanya is openly a member of this group.

2. Cletus Ilomuanya is no longer a traditional ruler for more than three years now and his Obinugwu community has since nominated a new Igwe. Rochas deposed him for the reason given above. That he was openly politicking while acting as a traditional ruler.
So, how can someone who is no longer an Igwe becomes the chairman of any traditional rulers gathering group, does not make sense?
It's a fact that while Rochas is still a governor of Imo, Ilomuanya returning as an Igwe is a mere fiction and will be worsened if PDP is to lose the centre in this election.

If Fayose is to call Buhari names based on his physical status, dressing sense etc, no one will care but what he did in the UK would have led to his arrest because threatening someone 's life even on Twitter in the UK now attracts a criminal charges.

So forget about partisanship, Jonathan is desperate, hence the reason his campaign has kept mute.
Why do think in America there are audio or written signature to every election Ad on every medium signalling that the candidate approves such Ad?
Does Jonathan approves Fayose Ad mocking the death of former rulers including his own boss?

Oildichotomy:
While I have issues with the advert and the inciting comments it contains.

I take solace in the fact judging from all antecedents, GEJ has been the most insulted president in the history of Nigeria and not because he deserves it or he is the worst president to come out of Nigeria but the rise of Social Media and the Minority factor has played a great role in fanning the insults.

My only grouse is, that is coming from a Government official

You are wrong, you are missing the point. Insult is not the same as criticism, even harsh criticism. That what Jonathan has faced at most, harsh criticism and not an insult.
No one has officially questioned why Jonathan has children outside his matrimonial home? By official I meant an organised society groups, political parties, government agencies and government official.

If you and I go to Twitter and do what Fayose did, it will probably will not carry such weight but because of the source it came from and the medium used, it was no longer criticism but insult, criminal act because it carry a threat to a human life.

Am so sorry.
I wanted to trend, Zahra Buhari is trending more than me and GEJ
This is the mentality of someone running affairs of millions of people.
God help them.

Redoil:
WISEMEN FROM THE EAST
These people from the east have decided to be given us bad names in other country. Why will somebody choose to travell to other country just to break their rules intentionally and start begging for mercy.

Your next incoming Right honourable Senator Kashamu is not from the East, neither the two Nigerians ever to be executed for drugs on home soil.

PointB:
The is hitting the nail on the head; the heart of the matter!

Buhari is running foul of the law because he believe he has the backings of almajiris (like himself) who are ready to unleash mayhem should he be disqualified. It is best he honorably withdraws from the race, to allow those more eminently qualified to enjoy the fruit of their labour.

It's become glaring that indeed Buhari is an unlettered bigot; a bloody semi-illiterate! Buhari has longed reaped where he did not sow; this impunity should stop! Enough is enough!!

Buhari should bow out of the race or #Buharishowyourcertificate

Deep in you heart, you felt this was the truth or what you wished it's the truth?
Two or three weeks left, you people are still drunk on a well outdated news. It must be clear by now that this guy is not going anywhere, no one is disqualifying him. You might as well do your utmost in helping your choicest candidate through other means, instead of continuing taking medication for a long gone ill health.

frankyychiji:
Failbuhari has challenged a 50yr old newspaper reporter to a game of football ! He swore the reporter would be the first to bow out from the pitch due to fatigue before the end. Yaradua of blessed memory challenged Nigerians who confronted him over his health to a game of squash, yaradua never played that game!




....Tinubu is only using the man with an imaginary 12m votes in 2011 to achieve his selfish interest!

I choose life!

You just sad down comfortably and typed this and felt comfortable?

Am sure you know nothing about Jonathan or Buhari except for two people you see on TV. They don't care whether you are alive or dead, whether you eat tonight or starve, whether you are housed or homeless.
But here you are pissing yourself over other people's lucrative careers.
You sad down wishing another person ill health and death as if yours was carved in stone and guaranteed.
Every day babies, teenagers, young and old dies from various reasons. Health and death does not go by age or health alphabetical orders. It is not who sick the most or aged the most that dies the most.
In few weeks time, this election will be over and irrespective of who win, it's most unlikely that the outcome will change your personal fortune, unless you are part of the Nigeria 1%.

And if you are not but had this zeal of hate for a fellow human being you never met, then that will be a big shame and a pity.