Buhari Obtained Five Credits, WAEC Official Testifies At Tribunal

A Deputy Registrar of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Henry Adewunmi has said President Muhammadu Buhari obtained a Cambridge University West African examination certificate with five credits.

His testimony is contrary to claims by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the president may not have a WAEC certificate following his failure to provide his secondary school leaving certificate.

Testifying before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja, Adewumi said Buhari wrote the 1961 WAEC exams in eight subjects and emerged successful in five.

He passed Oral English, C 5; History, A3; Geography, C6; Hausa, C5; and Health Science, C6.

According to him, Buhari wrote the exams with 17 others and had an aggregate of 32. He was number 2 on the list of those who had taken the examination that year.   

He also said that Buhari’s first name on the Cambridge assessment educational certified statement presented in court had typographical error.

The first name written on the Cambridge assessment educational certified statement presented in court was typographically different from that of the president. The name on Buhari’s assessment statement was “Mohamed” Buhari, rather than “Muhammadu Buhari.”

The witness, however, said the statement cannot be regarded as a certificate because it is “only a foundation for the award of certificate and not a certificate.

“The document is the foundation for issuing a certificate. It is not a certificate,” Adewunmi said.

The PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the 2019 presidential election at the election tribunal.