The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has
dismissed the statement of result released by
the Government College Katsina, as the
University of Cambridge West African Schools
Certificate results of Muhammadu Buhari, the
presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, APC.
At a media briefing Thursday, the PDP said
the document released Wednesday by the
school was “forged, manipulated and
fraudulently procured”.
The Katsina College released the two
documents amid intense controversy over Mr.
Buhari’s academic qualification as required
by the Constitution for a presidential election
candidate.
Read below, the PDP’s full statement released
by Femi Fani-Kayode, the director media,
Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organization.
Gentlemen of the Press,
Yesterday, 21st of January, 2014, the
Presidential candidate of the All Progressive
Congress, Gen Muhammadu Buhari addressed
a Press Conference where he attempted to
explain the series of controversies
surrounding his academic qualifications
especially the Secondary School Certificate.
Again, the APC candidate, rather than provide
a conclusive proof that he possesses this
minimum qualification, went into a session of
blame game and shifting of what ordinarily
ought to be his personal responsibility as he
said and I quote “I have formally requested
my old school, Provisional Secondary School
Katsina, which is now known as Government
College, Katsina, to make available the Schools
copy of the result of the Cambridge West
African Schools Certificate.”
It is unfortunate that the more Gen Buhari
tries to extricate himself from the crisis, the
more he stumbles into a new phase in the
unfolding narrative of his obvious complicity
in a matter that borders on perjury and which
has called his avowed integrity to question.
It is quite unfortunate that a few hours after
Gen Buhari’s Press conference, some
documents appeared on various Media
platforms purporting to be the APC
candidate’s results released by his old school.
Having carefully studied the statement of
Result 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, we wish to
make the following observations and
comments:
The results 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 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 says “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.
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