The PDP Presidential Campaign
Organisation has expressed doubt over the recently released Secondary
School Certificate Result of Gen. Mohammad Buhari, the APC
Presidential Candidate.
The party described it as a super
imposition of documents.
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Director of the
Directorate of Media and Publicity of the organisation, expressed the
doubt at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday.
He said the result, released on Jan.
21, after controversies surrounding Buhari`s academic qualifications
and his eligibility to contest the presidency in Feb. 14, was a
fraud.
It will be recalled that hours after
Buhari’s press conference in Kaduna, some documents appeared on
various media platforms said to be the result released by his old
school.
Fani-Kayode said that rather than
providing a conclusive proof that Buhari possessed the minimum
qualification to contest the presidency, he went into a session of
‘blame game.’
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According to him, Buhari is shifting
what ordinarily ought to be his personal responsibility to his
alleged old school: the Provisional Secondary School Katsina, now
Government College, Katsina.
``It is unfortunate that the more Gen.
Buhari tries to extricate himself from the crisis, the more he
stumbles into a new phase in the unfolding narrative of his obvious
complicity’’, he said.
Fani-Kayode said the development
bordered on perjury, adding that it had again called Buhari`s avowed
integrity to question.
He added that the directorate had
carefully studied the purported statement of result, signed by the
school’s principal and an examination officer and observed that it
was a clear super imposition.
``The result sheet which was attributed
to the Cambridge examination body, is clearly a super imposition of
one document on another’’, he said.
He explained that the column which
lined on the part where names were printed did not align with the
blank columns adding that there was an introduction of extraneous
lines on some other columns.
He added that the documents contained
an obvious alteration on the Mathematics column of the candidate,
Mohamed Buhari, who was assumed to have scored an ``F” in the
subject.
This, he said, raised a fundamental
issue of validity in view of the fact that the accompanying result
sheet stated that any alteration or erasure rendered the statement of
result invalid.
``Our conclusion from all these is that
the documents purportedly released by Government College, Katsina,
are forged’’, he said.
He said that Buhari could not use the
result ``to bury the doubt about his eligibility for next month’s
election as APC Presidential candidate.’’
Fani-Kayode added that the purported
result was manipulated and fraudulently procured and therefore
untenable in fact and in law.
``We do not know who the authors and
masterminds of this forgery are, but whoever they are; we urge them
to come forward and be identified.’’
He called on the police and other
security agencies to fish them out, arrest them, interrogate them and
prosecute them in accordance with the laws should they fail to come
forward voluntarily.
He stressed that the issue was not
about the PDP or President Goodluck Jonathan, the party`s
presidential candidate, but about the integrity of who becomes the
next president of the country.
