The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said it will not submit the West African School Certificate attestation of President Muhammadu Buhari to the Independent National Electoral Commission despite the fact that it had been presented to him by the West African Examination Council.
The attestation was presented to President Buhari on Friday, November 2, 2018, by the registrar of WAEC, Dr. Uyi Uwadiae, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
But Lanre Issa-Onilu, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, told Saturday Tribune that the certificate will not longer be submitted to INEC as it was no longer necessary.
Issa-Onilu said: “We don’t need to submit to INEC.
“INEC has never expressed reservations about the documents that President Muhammadu Buhari attached to his personal particulars.
“Now that WAEC has issued Mr. President his certificate, any of the Doubting Thomases can approach the body, WAEC, for authentication or clarification.”
The president has received intense social media backlash since the matter of his “missing WAEC” certificate resurfaced during the Independent National Electoral Commission’s announcement of candidates in the 2019 elections.
Femi Aribisala, a prominent opposition columnist, has slammed the certificate presented to Buhari calling it an “oluwole”, which means fake in Yoruba.
FAKE “OLUWOLE” CERTIFICATE
In 2014, PMB said he took a Cambridge University UCLES exam. In 2018, this has changed to WASC. WAEC is not the legacy successor of UCLES. The legacy successor is Cambridge Assessment. In 2014, WAEC denied ever conducting exams in north Nigeria in 1961. pic.twitter.com/WwdY1Ma3v1— Femi Aribisala (@femiaribisala) November 3, 2018
