UNBELIEVABLE: Buhari's certificate forged

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential

Campaign Organisation alleged on Thursday

that the school certificate presented by the

presidential candidate of the All Progressives

Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari

(retd.), was forged.







The Director of Media and Publicity of the

organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, made the

allegation at a press conference in Abuja.

He, however, added that the organisation had

yet to contact the school that issued the

certificate to either confirm or deny its

authenticity.



But when one of our correspondents spoke

with the school Principal, Mr. Isyaku Bello on

the telephone, he said the certificate he signed

was genuine.



The principal said, “If they are doubting the

result, then they should come and see the

authentic copy and not the photocopy sent to

us by the Cambridge West Africa School.



“We are here waiting for anybody doubting

what we have sent out. We are not running

away. Let them come and found out. “

Nevertheless, Fani-Kayode still insisted that the

document, which were released by the Ministry

of Education, Katsina State and the University of

Cambridge, was fraudulently procured.

He said those who authored the result must be

arrested by the police and be prosecuted.



He said, “Our conclusion from all these is that

the document purportedly released by the

Government College (Pilot) Katsina, upon which

the APC presidential candidate hopes to bury

the doubt about his eligibility for next month’s

election is forged, manipulated and fraudulently

procured. It is therefore untenable in fact and in

law.



“We do not know who the authors and

masterminds of this forgery are but whoever

they are, we urge them to come forward and

be identified.



“If they fail to come forward voluntarily, we

hereby call on the police and other security

agencies to seek them out, find them, arrest

them, interrogate them and prosecute them, in

accordance with the laws of the land.”



Fani-Kayode also called on Buhari to submit

himself to the police to answer charges of

perjury, alleging that the former Head of State

lied on oath about his academic qualification.

This, he said, was what a man who “claims to

represent integrity and due process ought to do

in this situation.”



He said there was no way that Buhari could

extricate himself from the crisis, adding that the

more he tried “to extricate himself, the more he

stumbles into a new phase in the unfolding

narrative of his obvious complicity in a matter

that he claimed borders on perjury.”



He said having carefully studied the statement

of result as signed by the “school principal” and

an “examination officer” of the Government

College, Katsina, as well as the attached

document titled, ‘University of Cambridge West

Africa School Certificate 1961’, his campaign

organisation believed that the result was not

genuine.



He raised the following observations and

comments on the document.



The former Minister of Information said, “The

result sheet which was attributed to the

Cambridge examination body is clearly a super

imposition of one document on another, as you

will shortly see in the enlarged image of the

result sheet as published. The column lines on

the part where names are printed do not align

with the blank columns while there is an

introduction of extraneous lines on some other

columns.



“The document contains an obvious alteration

on the Mathematics column of the candidate,

Mohamed Buhari, who was assumed to have

scored an ‘F’ in the subject. This raises a very

fundamental issue of validity in view of the fact

that the accompanying result sheet states that

‘any alteration or erasure renders this statement

of result invalid.’



“This is the standard practice in all interpretation

of documents, especially academic records. The

question we put to Gen. Buhari and his party is

whether this alteration was done by the

University of Cambridge.

Asked if his organisation has made any request

to verify the authenticity of the documents, he

said no.



Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress

Presidential Campaign Organisation has said

that it prefers not to respond to the

provocations of Fani-Kayode, but rather engage

him on issues that have the potential to bring

the greatest good for the greatest number of

Nigerians.



A press statement signed by Director of Media

and Publicity of the APCPCO, Mallam Garba

Shehu, on Thursday said it was laughable the

PDP would not let-go of the educational

qualification of the APC presidential candidate,

even when the matter had been exhaustively

laid to rest.



“It is not our desire in the APC presidential

campaign organisation to join an individual who

has a record of talking to please the moment on

any petty issue. At some point in the recent

past, it was convenient for Fani-Kayode to say

this of the APC and its leaders: ‘What Nigerians

need now is to join hands with the APC leaders,

Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Bola

Ahmed Tinubu to move the nation forward.

Today, Fani-Kayode sees no desecration in

recanting that same position, just to satisfy his

convenience.”



“The APC and its candidate are in this

presidential campaign to discuss issues that will

improve the standard of living of Nigerians and

ensure that the people of this country are

properly secured. Whenever the PDP and its

presidential campaign spokesman feel ready to

join us on this noble path, we will not be willing

to join them on petty issues,” Shehu said.



He noted that these distractions are being

promoted in order to provide a blanket cover

over the shortcomings of the Jonathan

administration in the areas of security,

employment, war against corruption and

infrastructure.



“Nigerians need no telling that all these

distractions and provocations by Jonathan, the

PDP and their cohorts are aimed at ensuring

that they escape scrutiny over their score card

marked by insecurity, unemployment and

rampant corruption,” Shehu said.

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