Military ‘Lost’ Buhari’s WAEC Certificate – Presidency

The Presidency has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate which he earlier claimed is with the military has been misplaced by the service.

Disclosing this was the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, who in an interview with The Nation declared Buhari’s certificate controversy as a dead and buried matter.

Adesina described those reawakening the matter as “idle” persons in the opposition.

Buhari’s certificate controversy was rekindled about a week ago after the President failed again to present his senior school certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as required by presidential candidates, claiming It is with the military.

Speaking however in the interview, Adesina said, “The certificate saga is a dead issue, only idle people will consider it. It is something that had been laid to rest before the 2015 general elections.

“Those raising the issue are idle and they have run out of ideas. They see defeat staring them in the face and they are desperate to cling to any straw. This issue was resolved before the 2015 election.

“The military knew where they kept the original certificates of the president. In fact, a former chief of defence Staff, Gen. Alani Akinrinade, corroborated that the military collected the original certificates of all its officers.

“The military already said they lost the certificates. But does it mean that it did not exist that the president went to school, sat for examinations and passed; attended military courses and War College?

“It does not change the fact that the president rose through the ranks to become a major-general in the Nigerian army and a military head of state.

“Didn’t those opposed to president Buhari go to court over his certificate and lost before? They will still lose this time around. It is a dead issue.”