Buhari to PDP: Leave my
certificates alone, face
unemployment, corruption,
insecurity
on january 21, 2015 at 4:28 pm in news, politics
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CPC Presidential candidate, Gen. Buhari
Presidential candidate of All Progressives
Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd)
has finally challenged Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, to stop making an issue out of his school
certificate, but to rather campaign on issues of
unemployment, insecurity and corruption
bedevilling the country.
Buhari, in a briefing Wednesday, said he would
have dismissed the certificates issue as sheer
mischief but for the concern expressed by many
of his supporters and other well-meaning
Nigerians.
He said: “Although the ruling party may want to
wish this away, the issue in this campaign cannot
be my certificate, which I obtained 53 years ago.
“The issues are the scandalous level of
unemployment of millions of our young people,
the state of insecurity, the pervasive official
corruption which has impoverished our people
and the lack of concern of the government for
anything other than the retention of power at all
costs.”
According to the former Head of State, he sat for
the University of Cambridge/WASC Examination in
1961, with examination number 8280002, and
passed in the Second Division.
Buhari said: “I had assumed all along that all my
records were in the custody of the Military
Secretary of the Nigerian Army. Much to my
surprise, we are now told that although a record
of the result is available, there are no copies of
the certificates in my personal file.
“This is why I formally requested my old school,
the Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, (now
Government College, Katsina) to make available
the school’s copy of the result of the Cambridge/
West African School Certificate. This will be made
available to the press the moment it is available.
“However, before we obtain that, let me say for
the record that I attended Provincial Secondary
School, Katsina. I graduated in 1961 with many
prominent Nigerians, including General Shehu
Yar’Adua, former Chief of Staff at the Supreme
Headquarters, and Justice Umaru Abdullahi, a
former President of the Court of Appeal.
“We sat for the University of Cambridge/WASC
Examination together in 1961, the year we
graduated. My examination number was
8280002, and I passed the examination in the
Second Division.
“And although the ruling party may want to wish
this away, the issue in this campaign cannot be
my certificate, which I obtained 53 years ago. The
issues are the scandalous level of unemployment
of millions of our young people, the state of
insecurity, the pervasive official corruption, which
has impoverished our people and the lack of
concern of the government for anything other
than the retention of power at all costs.”

why should we leave your certificate alone? are you scared?