After hiring 13 SANs and blaming the military for the loss of his certificate, WAEC presents it to President Buhari. The West African Examination Coun
After hiring 13 SANs and blaming the military for the loss of his certificate, WAEC presents it to President Buhari. The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has presented an attestation certificate and confirmation of school certificate result to President Muhammadu Buhari. Iyi Uwadiae, the WAEC registrar, presented the certificate to Buhari on Froday at the presidential villa in Abuja. There has been controversy over whether or not he wrote the O’Level exam having claimed in his affidavit to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his original credentials were with the military.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition party, had threatened to go to court over the certificate saga. In the heat of the controversy,his spokesman, Femi Adesina quoted the military as saying they had lost Buhari’s certificate.
“The military knew where they kept the original certificates of the president. In fact, a former chief of defence Staff, Gen. Alani Akinrinade, corroborated that the military collected the original certificates of all its officers.The military already said they lost the certificates. But does it mean that it did not exist that the president went to school, sat for examinations and passed; attended military courses and War College? ” he had said.
Alex Ajayi, former registrar, West African Examination Council (WAEC), had said in 2016 that he issued Buhari’s certificate.
“I joined the West African Examination Council as a pioneer staff. I was the first substantive Nigerian Assistant Registrar. I took over the control of the examination from the University of Cambridge. I took examiners to Cambridge for training across 10 years and trained them in Nigeria. I had the opportunity of issuing WAEC certificates to three former Heads of State: Buhari, Abacha and Babangida in the 60s,” he told the newspaper in an interview.
In 2016, Buhari employed the services of 13 Senior Advocate of Nigeria and 10 other counsels to appeal the ruling of Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss his preliminary objection to a suit filed by an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe against him challenging the authenticity of his WAEC result. Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe had dragged President Buhari before the court, arguing that he did not meet the educational requirement to contest for President of Nigeria. Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe alleged that President Buhari did not sit for the Cambridge West African School Certificate WASC in 1961 as he claimed.
