Less than 24 hours after Government College, formerly
Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, released the secondary school
certificate examination results of the APC presidential candidate, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the
result as a “forgery.”
The ruling party made the statement through the Director of Media and Publicity of its campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, at a news conference held in Abuja on Thursday.
According to Fani-Kayode, the result sheet issued by the Cambridge examination body was superimposed on another document
When asked if the PDP had contacted the authorities in Buhari’s old
secondary school to verify the authenticity of the document, Fani-Kayode
stated that the party was not interested in such exercise.
“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.
“The document contains an obvious alteration on 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 Gen. 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 said “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 candidates 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 Gen. 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,” Fani-Kayode said.
The ruling party made the statement through the Director of Media and Publicity of its campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, at a news conference held in Abuja on Thursday.
According to Fani-Kayode, the result sheet issued by the Cambridge examination body was superimposed on another document
Fani-Kayode
“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.
“The document contains an obvious alteration on 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 Gen. 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 said “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 candidates 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 Gen. 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,” Fani-Kayode said.
It would be recalled that Buhari addressed a press conference on January 21, 2015, Wednesday, after the military denied being in possession of his academic certificates.
The controversy lead to the release of Buhari’s secondary school results by Government College in Katsina State.
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