Despite
the presentation of the statement of result of the presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), by
his school, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign
Organisation has dismissed the document as a forgery.
But
the principal of Buhari’s alma mater, Government Collage, Katsina (formerly
Provincial Secondary School, Katsina), Alhaji Isiyaku Bello Bello, has invited
the ruling party to sight the original copy of the University of Cambridge/West
Africa School Certificate result, if there are any lingering doubts.
Speaking on Thursday, Bello said: “We are here waiting for anybody who doubts
what we have sent out.”
But
addressing journalists, the spokesman of PDP campaign team, Chief Femi Femi
Fani-Kayode 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.”
He
tried to illustrate from a computer the super imposition on the photo copied
result sheet (Cambridge printout) and thereafter continued: “The document
contains an obvious alteration in 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 results invalid'. This is the standard practice in all
interpretation of documents especially academic records.
“The
question we put to General Buhari and his party is whether this alteration was
done by the University of Cambridge? One of the footnotes on the document
purportedly issued by the University of Cambridge says ‘the results of this
candidate in all subjects except English Language have been carried forward
from the 1960 examination.’
“The
question arising from this is: When exactly did Buhari sit for all the other
subjects claimed to have been passed in the Secondary School Examination?
“Our
conclusion from all these is that the documents purportedly released by
Government College (Pilot), Katsina, upon which the APC presidential candidate
hopes to bury the doubt about his eligibility for next month’s election are
forged, manipulated and fraudulently procured. They are 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.
“We
reiterate our call on General Buhari to submit himself to the police to answer
charges of perjury, having lied on oath about his academic qualifications.
“This
is what a man who claims to represent integrity and due process ought to do in
this situation.”
He
termed the document an “Oluwole” forgery (local parlance for forgery), adding,
“We shall identify those behind this and prosecute them.”
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They should go to court. They just want to distract Nigerians from the realities on ground. We have grown beyond that archaic style of campaign. Nigerians have insisted that Jonathan must return to Utuoke.
ReplyDeleteThey can go to court anytime they want and tell the Judge that. It is not PDP that will decide which document is false, they are just making noise because certificate is not the issue in this Election.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I have seen the master sheet of the result for the School as released by Cambridge University WASC in 1961, am ok with it and Fani-Kayode can hold is peace am not listening to him again.
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