President Buhari receives attestation, confirmation of result from WAEC, thanks Exam Board for upholding integrity

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Buhari being presented the certificate on Friday.

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*We sought this courtesy visit to clear doubts, present copy of your certificate to you – WAEC Registrar told Buhari

*As Registrar says: “Your Excellency, we have your records”

*It was very difficult to commit examination fraud during our time – Buhari

*Exam Board finally exposes PDP’s politics of name killing – Nigerians

President Buhari with RL: Olutise Adenipekun Head Nig. Office WAEC, Minister of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu, SGF Boss Mustapha, Registrar WAEC Dr Iyi Uwadiae, Head Public Affairs WAEC Abiodun Aduloju and Zonal Coordinator WAEC Abuja Olufemi Oke as he Attestation and confirmation of result from West Africa Examination Council (WAEC ) register in State House on 2nd Nov 2018.

”We were examined in three subjects, English, Mathematics and General Knowledge because English is the language for general instruction throughout the country because of our colonial heritage.  Mathematics in the military was necessary, coupled with Geography. We were trained how to be dropped off in the bush, given only a pair of compass and since we were not astronomers, you have to learn to find your way, calculate, using the Pythagoras Theorem and others to work out your position,” he said.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, in Abuja received the attestation and confirmation of his 1961 West African School Certificate (WASC) Examination result from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement he issued in Abuja on Friday, copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER.

President Buhari with R-L: Dr Iyi Uwadiae Registrar WAEC, Olutise Adenipekun Head Nig. Nat. Office WAEC, Head Public Affairs WAEC Abiodun Aduloju and Zonal Coordinator WAEC Abuja Olufemi Oke as he receives Attestation and confirmation of result from West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) registrar in State House on 2nd Nov 2018

The documents were presented to the President at State House during a courtesy visit by a delegation of WAEC led by its Registrar, Dr Iyi Uwadiae, accompanied by Olutise Adenipekun, Head, National Office, WAEC, Abiodun Aduloju, Head Public Affairs, WAEC and Olufemi Oke, Zonal Coordinator, WAEC Abuja.

The President thanked the examination board, established in 1952, and which conducts the WASC examination for University and JAMB entry examination in West African countries, for upholding its integrity over the years, adding that he did not expect anything less from the institution.

The President said it would have been impossible for him to have attended the Defence Services Staff College, India (1973) and thereafter, United States Army War College, as a Nigerian military officer, if he didn’t sit for the WASC examinations in 1961.

The President recounted that during his secondary school days, it was very difficult to commit examination fraud, even though it was not impossible.

”My colleagues and I who spent close to nine years in boarding school both in primary and secondary, including Gen. Musa Yar’Adua, when we intended to join the military we had to take a military examination.

President Buhari with RL: Olutise Adenipekun Head Nig. Office WAEC, Minister of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu, SGF Boss Mustapha, Registrar WAEC Dr Iyi Uwadiae, Head Public Affairs WAEC Abiodun Aduloju and Zonal Coordinator WAEC Abuja Olufemi Oke as he Attestation and confirmation of result from West Africa Examination Council (WAEC ) register in State House on 2nd Nov 2018.

”We were examined in three subjects, English, Mathematics and General Knowledge because English is the language for general instruction throughout the country because of our colonial heritage.

”Mathematics in the military was necessary, coupled with Geography. We were trained how to be dropped off in the bush, given only a pair of compass and since we were not astronomers, you have to learn to find your way, calculate, using the Pythagoras Theorem and others to work out your position,” he said.

In his remarks, the Registrar said it was possible for candidates to lose their examination certificates through fire and any other unfortunate incident.

”We don’t issue certificates twice but we can issue attestations or duplicate copy of the certificate.

”We also have what we refer to as confirmation; usually, universities were using this in those days when Information Technology was not in vogue.

”Whoever sat for WASC exams in whatever year, we have the records in our database, and Mr President, we have the records of the examinations you sat in 1961.

”We have the attestation of results which we issue to candidates who lost their certificates and confirmation of results,’’ Dr Uwadiae said.

In the meantime, patriotic Nigerians have begun to comment on the Buhari’s certificate saga, saying it is unfortunate that the cooking of the “cheap” blackmail could come from a party like Peoples Democratic, which has a lawyer as its National Chairman.

“Now it is clear, that PDP cannot contest a free, fair and credible election without engaging in character damaging.  They did this in 2015 to the extent of giving huge among of money to party members, who later upon takeover by President Muhammadu Buhari confessed how they took between N850 million and N2.6 billion for nothing but doing media and publicity, which content which basically, as we all saw them confessing in court, they apparently spent on those AIT, NTA and extremely damaging, divisive, dangerous blackmailing campaigns against the person of Buhari as Presidential Candidate of APC at that time,” one of them said in his reaction to The DEFENDER Friday night.


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