BREAKING: WAEC presents certificate to Buhari

The West African Examination Council has presented confirmation of school certificate result and attestation certificate to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this on his Twitter handle, @FemAdesina, on Friday.

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“WAEC presents attestation certificate and confirmation of school cert result to President Buhari. What will the naysayers say next?” Adesina wrote.

Earlier, the documents were presented to the President in the State House, Abuja, during a courtesy visit by a delegation of WAEC led by its Registrar, Dr Iyi Uwadiae.

Uwadiae was accompanied by Olutise Adenipekun, Head, National Office, WAEC, Abiodun Aduloju, Head Public Affairs, WAEC and Olufemi Oke, Zonal Coordinator, WAEC Abuja.

The President thanked the examination board, established in 1952 to conduct the WASC examination for University and JAMB entry examination in West African countries, for upholding its integrity over the years.

He said that he did not expect anything less from the institution.

The President said it would have been impossible for him to have attended the Defence Services Staff College, India (1973) and thereafter, United States Army War College, as a Nigerian military officer, if he didn’t sit for the WASC examinations in 1961.

The President recounted that during his secondary school days, it was very difficult to commit examination fraud, even though it was not impossible.

“My colleagues and I who spent close to nine years in boarding school, both in primary and secondary, including Gen. Musa Yar’Adua, when we intended to join the military we had to take a military examination.

“We were examined in three subjects, English, Mathematics and General Knowledge because English is the language for general instruction throughout the country because of our colonial heritage.

“Mathematics in the military is necessary, coupled with Geography.

“We were trained on how to be dropped off in the bush, given only a pair of compass and since we were not astronomers, you have to learn to find your way, calculate, using the Pythagoras Theorem and others to work out your position,” he said.

In his remarks, the Registrar said it was possible for candidates to lose their examination certificates through fire and any other unfortunate incidents.

“We don’t issue certificates twice, but we can issue attestations or duplicate copy of the certificate.

“We also have what we refer to as confirmation; usually, universities were using this in those days when Information Technology was not in vogue.

“Whoever sat for WASC exams in whatever year, we have the records in our database.

“Mr President, we have the records of the examinations you sat in 1961.

“We have the attestation of results which we issue to candidates who lost their certificates and confirmation of results,” Uwadiae said.