The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation alleged on Thursday that the school certificate presented by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was forged.
The Director of Media and Publicity of the organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, made the allegation at a press conference in Abuja.
He, however, added that the organisation had yet to contact the school that issued the certificate to either confirm or deny its authenticity.
But when one of our correspondents spoke with the school Principal, Mr. Isyaku Bello on the telephone, he said the certificate he signed was genuine.
The principal said, “If they are doubting the result, then they should come and see the authentic copy and not the photocopy sent to us by the Cambridge West Africa School.
“We are here waiting for anybody doubting what we have sent out. We are not running away. Let them come and found out. “
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Nevertheless, Fani-Kayode still insisted that the document, which were released by the Ministry of Education, Katsina State and the University of Cambridge, was fraudulently procured.
He said those who authored the result must be arrested by the police and be prosecuted.
He said, “Our conclusion from all these is that the document purportedly released by the Government College (Pilot) Katsina, upon which the APC presidential candidate hopes to bury the doubt about his eligibility for next month’s election is forged, manipulated and fraudulently procured. It is 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.”
Fani-Kayode also called on Buhari to submit himself to the police to answer charges of perjury, alleging that the former Head of State lied on oath about his academic qualification.
This, he said, was what a man who “claims to represent integrity and due process ought to do in this situation.”
He said there was no way that Buhari could extricate himself from the crisis, adding that the more he tried “to extricate himself, the more he stumbles into a new phase in the unfolding narrative of his obvious complicity in a matter that he claimed borders on perjury.”
He said having carefully studied the statement of result as signed by the “school principal” and an “examination officer” of the Government College, Katsina, as well as the attached document titled, ‘University of Cambridge West Africa School Certificate 1961’, his campaign organisation believed that the result was not genuine.
He raised the following observations and comments on the document.
The former Minister of Information 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.
“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 result 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.
Asked if his organisation has made any request to verify the authenticity of the documents, he said no.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation has said that it prefers not to respond to the provocations of Fani-Kayode, but rather engage him on issues that have the potential to bring the greatest good for the greatest number of Nigerians.
A press statement signed by Director of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO, Mallam Garba Shehu, on Thursday said it was laughable the PDP would not let-go of the educational qualification of the APC presidential candidate, even when the matter had been exhaustively laid to rest.
“It is not our desire in the APC presidential campaign organisation to join an individual who has a record of talking to please the moment on any petty issue. At some point in the recent past, it was convenient for Fani-Kayode to say this of the APC and its leaders: ‘What Nigerians need now is to join hands with the APC leaders, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to move the nation forward. Today, Fani-Kayode sees no desecration in recanting that same position, just to satisfy his convenience.”
“The APC and its candidate are in this presidential campaign to discuss issues that will improve the standard of living of Nigerians and ensure that the people of this country are properly secured. Whenever the PDP and its presidential campaign spokesman feel ready to join us on this noble path, we will not be willing to join them on petty issues,” Shehu said.
He noted that these distractions are being promoted in order to provide a blanket cover over the shortcomings of the Jonathan administration in the areas of security, employment, war against corruption and infrastructure.
“Nigerians need no telling that all these distractions and provocations by Jonathan, the PDP and their cohorts are aimed at ensuring that they escape scrutiny over their score card marked by insecurity, unemployment and rampant corruption,” Shehu said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Baba Iyabo has said the final issue we don't need to listen to lunatic,fani-kayode you spend the remaining of your life in jail
ReplyDeleteYou. SMH. Jail uniforms will be very perfect on you with this your corruptly acquired physic. GMB all the way... Olu
ReplyDeletePDP can not seize to surprise me. They have totally abandoned the main issues in this election which corruption, unemployment, security and so on. Buhari's qualifications is not important as the issues stated. The more they try to be personal in the campaign the more GMB becomes popular.
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly the point. PDP's campaign of calumny against Buhari is in fact turning to be a campaign FOR Buhari. By chasing trivialities, PDP continuously shows that it has no positive agenda, that it only hopes to win the election by mudslinging the opposition. Many Nigerians who were undecided who to vote for are now pitching their tent with Buhari because of disgust with PDP's dirty tactics. I wish PDP would learn!
DeleteYou are very correct Onyebuchi.
DeleteFFK, for your information you can contest for any position with your light /water bill. So what next after Qualification matter, don't bury your head under your arm pit please?
DeleteI saw a copy of this same Statement of Result in PremiumTimes and I notice that Fani-Kayode has doctored it's own version to make it look like a forgery. Readers of this forum should please check the Premium Times version. Fani-Kayode has changed the photograph. The one published by Premium Times had a black-and-white photograph that showed Buhari's youthfulness. The one Fani-Kayode has published here shows a coloured picture of Buhari. Colour photographs did not exist in Nigeria in 1961. Fani-Kayode is a crook!
ReplyDeleteNow the certificate is altered not that he does not have? Stop taking cheap drugs but Kayode and company will not listen.
ReplyDeleteBuhari is a Cheat, he should be arrested, prosecuted, striped of ranks and jailed. That is the truth. Period no sentiments.
ReplyDeleteWhy will a man that sees himself as anticorruption captain bring a fake result, I tire for Nigerians. Is fake result not part of corruption?
ReplyDeleteThe version of the Statement of Result Fani-Kayode (FFK) shows here has been doctored to give the impression that the document was forged. FFK has photo-shopped it and added a coloured photograph. The real version is in PremiumTimes. See it here:
ReplyDeletehttp://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2015/01/buhari-Statement-of-Result.pdf
FFK should be locked up for forgery!
Even,if Buhari has no certificate .......the common voice is that we want General Muhammad Buhari.
ReplyDeleteThis have shown that PDP is truly clueless. They have abandoned their campaign to be talking about certificate. Why not you guys focus on the main issues and do your campaign. From every indications PDP is now afraid. This is the only time they are facing real campaign and election, it's no longer business as usual. Buhari certificate is now your subject of campaign, it's no longer breath of fresh air and once without shoe. PDP lawyers have told you people that you can't disqualify Buhari in court because he's qualify constitutionally. Besides it's INEC business to be talking about certificate and qualifications not PDP. You are clueless indeed.
ReplyDeleteFemi Fani-Kayode is sick, a right think person should not listen to him. He is a lunatic. Aro is waiting for him.-Siji
ReplyDeleteI just don't know why people listen to fani kayodes comments, last year he was with APC , condemning PDP, now he is condemning APC again. He was always with OSUN state governor before state election , ....well I do not see ffk as serious politician. I was told that his father was also a controversial person. Either they like it or not, we want change, and GMB is our next president come next month isha Allah.
ReplyDeleteSo pdp have time to go about all this nonsense. They don't even tell us what they want to do.i know they have nothing to offer nigeria than their usual looting, let this idiot femi shut up his mouth.there is nothing they can say that would make nigerians change their mind anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT BUHARI HAS LIED AND THEREFORE SHOULD APOLOGIES AND STEP DOWN FOR A HONEST PERSON. AS A MEMBER OF THE PARTY I AM AWARE THAT THE PARTY SINCERELY SPEAKING IS FULL OF CRIMINALS THAT LEFT PDP. NOTWITSTANDING, WE HAVE HONEST PEOPLE WHO CAN DO THE JOB. ALL WE NEED IN THE PARTY IS CHOP I CHOP.
ReplyDeleteA certificate that was certified with ministry of education in 1961 when kaduna state was not even created, it's a real forged certificate, d name on the certificate still defer. Buhari should go and die, there is no vacant for buhari I aso rock.
ReplyDeleteBUHARI IS AN HONEST PERSON AND FANI- KAYODE IS JUST LIKE HIS FATHER ( CORRUPT & NOT RELEVANT). PDP IS DROWNING AND THE PARTY IS MAKING NIGERIA A LAUGHING STOCK IN COMITY OF NATIONS.
ReplyDeleteFFK said he had intimate relationship with married women of Igbo extraction, so why listen to him.Is like has no fmly to be respected.
ReplyDeleteIf Buhari has been using this certificate for the past elections he has contested for then INEC, PRESIDENCY and other agencies in charge of elections in this country should be held responsible. Even Jonathan is not clean on this issue.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the PRESIDENCY and his cohorts bringing this now is that they know they will lose this coming elections and are afraid to go to jail. Even if BUHARI does not have a primary school certificate, we will still vote for him. An educated illiterate is better than an illiterate PHD.
This is the case of a drowning man struggling to hold someone's feet for safety. We should all ignore these set of PDP gimmicks. Nigerians are wiser now and can never be fooled again. Certificate or no certificate, we cannot continue with the clueless administration. GEJ deceived all Nigerian by appealing to our emotion in 2011 that he has no shoes. This is impossible now and the next thing to do is assassination of character.
ReplyDeleteIf Buhari knew he could go get his statement of result, the question here is this why did he have to refer INEC to the military board, in 2004,2007 and 2011? If this was not forged, why has he failed to approach WAEC board for another copy of his certificate rather than forging a statement of result? Verification of results in the university has never been done through secondary schools, rather it is being done through WAEC, NECO and NABTEB, therefore i cannot believe this statement of result unless WAEC board proves it right.
ReplyDeleteWAEC board came out and told Nigerians that Buhari can apply for the verification of his results once he applies with his center no./exam no., another question is this, why has he refused to apply directly to WAEC board?
That Buhari has been using the FAKE certificate in the previous elections cannot make himNo innocent in this matter. PLEASE NOTE THAT EVERYDAY IS FOR THE THIEF BUT ONLY A DAY IS FOR THE OWNER. No way for coup this time around.
ReplyDeletePLEASE GENTLE MEN AND WOMEN, REMEMBER THE BUHARI OF TORONTO UNIVERSITY. THIS ISSUE OF FAKING OF RESULT STARTED LONG AGO. THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME FOR ALL TO SAY NO TO THIS UGLY TREND SAY NO TO BOKO HARAM WHO IS AGAINST WESTERN EDUCATION . REJECT THIS BUHARI (GMB) NOW.
ReplyDeleteThis Fani kayode boy has too much of time in his hands. What does wasc result has to do with governing the people, after all an idiot has a PHD from a university in Port Harcourt, of what good did that better the lives of Nigerians. FK, go get a life, we go vote Buhari to boot out that fisherman with PHD (Pot Hole Digger)
ReplyDeleteFFK, lets talk about issues, you are a lawyer, leave this matter of certificate to the market street people and suggest how we can move the nation forward!!!!!!, you like unnecessary wahala too much
ReplyDeleteDo you require a certificate to contest or stand for the office of a president?, so wettin be your problems
Fani-Kayode is a typical Yoruba man that's why betrays so easily
ReplyDeleteWhen Buhari enters Aso Rock we will register him at NOUN so go gently with the certificate question
ReplyDeleteWhile you're busy discussing a 1961 WASC result, the girl with the beautiful eyes is glob-trotting in expensive jets
ReplyDeletewats wrong abt a girl having a Jet , should Arm rubbers like u alone have it.
DeleteFani Kayode is just being the son of his father!!!. History tells us the roles played by his father in the first republic through reckless politicking which contributed immensely to the unpleasant operation "wet e" in the old west. The PDP does not need this type of character in their campaign outfit but rather a sound mind that can articulate GEJ archievements in every facet of the economy and make them campaign issues and tools to convince the electorate.
ReplyDeleteAPC children u better shut up your mouth PDP is trying to teach u politics , hope u have not also fake ur certificate for Governorship , Senate & Reps because u all are birds of the same feather that flogs together. Buhari rear nama in the North when his father asked him to go to school and because he want power by force claiming Presidency is his birth right without certificate but we Nigerian says NO he should go back college as OBJ did , I mean Adult Education to improve on Oral English- Ewu.
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