Breaking News!!! Katsina College releases Buhari’s WASC results

Government College, formerly Provincial Secondary
School, Katsina, which Muhammadu Buhari, the All
Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate,
graduated from in 1961, has released Mr. Buhari’s
secondary school certificate examination results.
The results, obtained exclusively by PREMIUM TIMES
Wednesday, confirm Mr. Buhari’s claim that he
undertook the University of Cambridge West African
School Certificate Examinations and obtained five
credits in English Language, Geography, Hausa
Language, History, and Health Science.
PREMIUM TIMES obtained the computer printout
from Cambridge University as well as a statement of
result, signed by the current principal of Katsina
College, dated January 21, 2015.
The results show that Mr. Buhari, a former military
head of state, failed in Mathematics and Woodwork,
and had a pass in Literature in English.
The examination centre number was 8280 while Mr.
Buhari’s candidate number was 002.
The statement of results is printed on the letter head
paper of the Katsina State Ministry of Education, and
it shows that the examination took place in 1961.
The Cambridge print out also shows the result of 17
other candidates at the centre, including Shehu
Yar’adua, a former Chief of Staff, Supreme
Headquarters.
Controversy over Mr. Buhari’s result escalated
Tuesday after the Nigerian Army, which had earlier
admitted to having a copies of his certificate,
reversed itself saying it could not even attest to the
details listed in his records.
The spokesperson of the Army, Olajide Laleye, said
“Neither the original copy, certified true copy (CTC)
nor statement of result of Major-.Gen. Mohammadu
Buhari‘s WASC result is in his personal file.”
He said while it is the practice in the Nigerian Army
that before candidates are shortlisted for
commissioning into the officers’ cadre of the service,
the selection board verifies the original copies of
credentials as presented, “There is no available
record to show that this process was followed in the
1960s.”
The military’s comments came after the retired
general had said that his lost copies of results were
with the Army, an explanation he gave ahead of elections February 14.