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aguiyi:
Ph for now. We can use courier, I pay for photocopies and courier from Enugu, can I send u a mail?

OK you are free

Buhari has enjoyed Nigeria's unity in mediocrity enough. Nigerian Youths arise!!

wirinet:
TAN, let this certificate nonsense go. It is settled. If you are not satisfied, there are many options available instead of making empty noise and nagging like a ego wounded wife. Write cambridge for clarifications, you would get answers in a matter of hours or in the alternative go to court.

You guys are too young to even begin to discuss with. Up till the 90's secondary school students get admitted to higher institutions and NDA with awaiting results. Because results were usually released late by WAEC (sometimes in november) and higher institutions resume academic session september or october. Student were given temporary admission based on awaiting results and testimonials (letter of recommendation) from the secondary school. It was after WAEC releases the results that it is submitted to the higher institutions to make the admission permanent. Those who fail had their temporary admission terminated.

What the Oyinbo principal of Buhari School wrote was a testimonial to assert the intellectual and moral integrity of its students seeking to gain admission into higher institutions. I am sure that it was not only Buhari that got the letter, but all students seeking to gain admission into higher institutions.

I hope you guys are better educated now.

After giving so much education, you failed to apply logic. Check the Principal's recommendation letter; he expected Buhari to pass English, Maths and 3 other subjects. Shouldn't that tell you that was the minimum requirement to be considered to have passed WASC and issued a certificate, and to join the army? Now, did Buhari make that requirement (having scored an F in Maths)? So why was his temporary admission not terminated?

logica:
After giving so much education, you failed to apply logic. Check the Principal's recommendation letter; he expected Buhari to pass English, Maths and 3 other subjects. Shouldn't that tell you that was the minimum requirement to be considered to have passed WASC and issued a certificate, and to join the army? Now, did Buhari make that requirement (having scored an F in Maths)? So why was his temporary admission not terminated?

Good question.

[quote author=APContherun post=30043687]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.[/quo
Link to the book pls

--- 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."

i went to medical school in UNN from the a Northern state and even on the first day i entered my class everybody was gossiping that its quota system.
Even when i entered as a direct entry and probably far better qualified than any of my entry mates.
The same excuse played in school and when we graduated i discovered everytime a dr from the North came for a course and training most people will disregard them and call them all sorts of names.But probably the most influential intelligent residents i meet as a student at UNTH came from the North.
I just want to say its but very normal for anyone who knows what the Igbo's represent today that they will prefer to vote a goat than a Northener in any election.People in the SE east have this backward retrogressive mentality about northerners and loathe them so much in a way i cannot understand.
99% of the unpalatable articles and name calling from the internet comes from igbos,yet we can count the number of igbos who went to the military at Buhari's time and succeeded to continuesly train and retrain and eventually go to the best training school in the world i.e the US war college.
I donot know if somebody will call me an illeterate after training at the top of my field and eventually inter politics.
If Buhari had gone one to do a masters in religious studies like his other friends who now seemed educated to this ignorant few,he would have had a hard time because they will say because he has a masters in islamic studies he is a Jihardist.

Buhari is a story and history that is being written everyday we are just watching as it unfolds,its beyond anybody.

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.

I guess he stated somewhere, that the North wanted to meet up with the South militarily. Hence...

I want out too!

IGBOSON1:
^^^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!!

nationwide1:
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.

You were prophetic
Look at the situation now

i went to medical school in UNN from the a Northern state and even on the first day i entered my class everybody was gossiping that its quota system.
Even when i entered as a direct entry and probably far better qualified than any of my entry mates.
The same excuse played in school and when we graduated i discovered everytime a dr from the North came for a course and training most people will disregard them and call them all sorts of names.But probably the most influential intelligent residents i meet as a student at UNTH came from the North.
I just want to say its but very normal for anyone who knows what the Igbo's represent today that they will prefer to vote a goat than a Northener in any election.People in the SE east have this backward retrogressive mentality about northerners and loathe them so much in a way i cannot understand.
99% of the unpalatable articles and name calling from the internet comes from igbos,yet we can count the number of igbos who went to the military at Buhari's time and succeeded to continuesly train and retrain and eventually go to the best training school in the world i.e the US war college.
I donot know if somebody will call me an illeterate after training at the top of my field and eventually inter politics.
If Buhari had gone one to do a masters in religious studies like his other friends who now seemed educated to this ignorant few,he would have had a hard time because they will say because he has a masters in islamic studies he is a Jihardist.

Buhari is a story and history that is being written everyday we are just watching as it unfolds,its beyond anybody.

You wrote this gibberish as a medical doctor?!
You have just confirmed what the Igbos believe