Buhari presented forged certificate – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) ,
on Thursday , said the certificate
paraded by the presidential candidate
of the All Progressives Congress (APC ),
Muhammadu Buhari , was forged.
Addressing journalists on Thursday in
Abuja , the Director, Media and Publicity
of the PDP Presidential Campaign
Organisation , Femi Fani- Kayode, noted
that a part of the statement of result
displayed by Buhari was altered and ,
therefore, was a forged document .
However , the APC , in an immediate
response, said it will no longer dignify
the PDP with a response on the
certificate saga anymore since it was
clear to it that the PDP was only
looking for a way to distract the
attention of Buhari and as well , divert
the attentions of Nigerians from the
real issues .
Garba Shehu , Director of Media and
Publicity of the APC Presidential
Campaign Organisation, gave the
response in a statement issued in Abuja
on Thursday .
Fani -Kayode had insisted at the press
conference that the document allegedly
emanating from the secondary school
Buhari attended in the name of being a
copy of his certificate , rather than clear
the air on the saga , rather compounded
it .
He also accused the APC candidate of
shedding responsibility as he (Buhari )
left the job of making public his
certificate to the management of his
former secondary school , rather than
take up the task and do it himself.
He faulted the document made
available to the press by the school , as
he noted that the school management
had doctored the result, especially the
grade scored in mathematics.
His words: “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 .
“ It is unfortunate that the more General
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. ”
Analysing the result, Fani- Kayode said :
“ The results sheet, which was attributed
to the Cambridge examination body is
clearly a super imposition of one
document on another .
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 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 General 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.
Daily Independent