Buhari’s ​WASC Results Finally Released

Reports just reaching us indicate that Government College, formerly Provincial Secondary School, Katsina,has released the secondary school certificate examination results of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate. According to Premium Times, the results confirm 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 in the schoo in 1961. It was disclosed that the computer printout of the results was obtained 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 Buhari’s candidate number was 002. It was gathered that 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. It would be recalled that there has been controversy over the result of the former Head of State’s result 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.

According to the spokesperson of the Army, Olajide Laleye,“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.