Registrar of West African
Examination Council, WAEC, Iyi Uwadiae on Friday presented attestation and
confirmation certificate to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
The Registrar presented only the
attestation certificate because by law it cannot present a new certificate
having allegedly issued the first one which the President said was with the
Military Board.
Uwadiea came from the WAEC
headquarters in Ghana to present the attestation certificate to the President
in his mini conference hall.
Femi Adesina, the special adviser
to the president on media and publicity confirmed this, he wrote on Twitter: “WAEC presents
attestation certificate and confirmation of school cert result to President
Buhari. What will the naysayers say next?”
WAEC presents attestation certificate and confirmation of school cert result to President Buhari. What will the naysayers say next?— Femi Adesina (@FemAdesina) November 2, 2018
There has been controversy over whether or not he wrote the O’Level exam having claimed in his affidavit to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his original credentials were with the military.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition party, had threatened to go to court over the certificate saga.
In the heat of the controversy,
Adesina quoted the military as saying they had lost Buhari’s certificate.
“The military knew where they
kept the original certificates of the president. In fact, a former chief of
defence Staff, Gen. Alani Akinrinade, corroborated that the military collected
the original certificates of all its officers,” he had said.
“The military already said they
lost the certificates. But does it mean that it did not exist that the president
went to school, sat for examinations and passed; attended military courses and
War College?”
Alex Ajayi, former registrar,
West African Examination Council (WAEC), had told PUNCH in 2016 that he issued
Buhari’s certificate.
“I joined the West African
Examination Council as a pioneer staff. I was the first substantive Nigerian
Assistant Registrar. I took over the control of the examination from the
University of Cambridge. I took examiners to Cambridge for training across 10
years and trained them in Nigeria. I had the opportunity of issuing WAEC
certificates to three former Heads of State: Buhari, Abacha and Babangida in
the 60s,” he told the newspaper in an interview.
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