Witness for the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, in the presidential Election Petition Tribunal,
Oshideinde Henry Sunday Adewumi, Wednesday affirmed that the Cambridge
Assessment Education certified statement for President Muhammadu Buhari was not
a certificate.
But the said document obtained
from Cambridge university in London was part of the total documents presented
as evidence to prove that Buhari is a true holder of West African Examination
Council, WAEC.
Not only that Adewumi denied the
document as a certificate, it was also denied by Mohammed Sariki Abba, another
APC Witness.
Also, Adewumi who is the Deputy
Registrar in-charge of School examination in Nigeria said the document under
cross-examination was a foundation for the issuance of a certificate.
However, the WAEC deputy
registrar under cross-examination by the Buhari counsel, Wole Olanipekun
affirmed that University of Cambridge moderated the examination.
He added, “That 18 students sat
for the examination in 1961 and, that Buhari was listed as number 2.
“Buhari sat for eight subjects
and had five credits – Oral English (C5), History (A3), Geography (C6), Hausa
(C5) and Health Science (C6).
“He came out with aggregate 32
and was awarded grade 2.
“I have been with WAEC for 30
years now”.
But a contradiction further arose
when Livy Uzoukwu, lead counsel of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its
candidate, Atiku Abubakar asked Adewumi to spell the name of the candidate
contained in the controversial result document and, the deputy Registrar spelt
MOHAMED, not MOHAMMADU as was expected.
Also, Uzoukwu found out that
Buhari did not attach the relevant information expected of him before the
election as a candidate in the INEC form CF001 which explicitly required
information about the certificate(s) obtained and school (s) attended by the
candidates.
By implication, the lawyer
averred that Buhari did not present his qualifying certificates to the
electoral umpire as required by law.
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