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 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.