The West African Examinations Council, WAEC has finally intervened in the Buhari certificate saga, noting that only General Muhammadu Buhari has the legal to apply to the examination body for the verification of his results.
Making this known to Vanguard yesterday, January, 20, 2015, WAEC Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Lagos, Mr. Yusuf Ari in a telephone conversation said, “No individual has the legal right to approach WAEC for the verification of another person’s result except the owner of the result.”
The director explained that the constitutional right vested on the Freedom of Information law does not include invasion of privacy adding, “The certificate in question belongs to Muhammadu Buhari and he alone has the right to apply for verification.
“Be that as it may, WAEC cannot take any action except, the owner of the certificate asked us to do so. We are an independent body, therefore, we cannot be partisan on this issue,” he said.
It would be recalled that the controversy over the former Head of State’s result surfaced after the Nigerian Army, which had earlier admitted to having copies of his certificate, reversed itself saying it could not even attest to the details listed in his records.
Buhari was forced to address a press conference on January 21, 2015, Wednesdayafter the military denied been in possession of his academic certificates.
The controversy lead to the Government College, formerly Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, releasing the secondary school certificate examination results of, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate.
According to Premium Times, the results confirm Buhari’s claim that he undertook the University of Cambridge West African School Certificate Examinations and obtained five credits in English Language, Geography, Hausa Language, History, and Health Science in the school in 1961
The results show that Buhari, a former military head of state, failed in Mathematics and Woodwork, and had a pass in Literature in English.
