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Gen. Muhammadu Buhari – The Issue in this Campaign Cannot Be My Certificate…
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is currently in Kano, addressing journalists on the controversies surrounding his educational certificates.
Read what he says below:
GMB is in Kano, currently addressing journalists on the questions raised on his educational certificates. #GMB15 pic.twitter.com/HMjn6JMueg
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
1/ Good Morning, Gentlemen of the Press.
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
2/ I only consented to address you this morning because of the genuine concern expressed by many supporters and other well-meaning…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
3/ …Nigerians that that the issue be addressed. Otherwise, I would have dismissed it for what it is – sheer mischief and would not have…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
4/ …considered it an issue worth the Nation’s while.
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
5/ I had assumed all along that all my records were in the custody of the Military Secretary of the Nigerian Army. Much to my surprise,…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
6/ …we are now told that although a record of the result is available, there are no copies of the certificates in my personal file.
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
7/ This is why I formally requested my old school, the Provincial Secondary School, Katsina [Which is now known as Government College,
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
8/ Katsina] to make available the school’s copy of the result of the Cambridge/West African School Certificate. This will be made…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
9/ …available to the Press the moment this is available.
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
10/ However, before we obtain that, let me say for the record that I attended Provincial Secondary School, Katsina. I graduated in 1961…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
11/ …with many prominent Nigerians, including General Shehu Yar’Adua, former chief of staff at the Supreme Headquarters, and Justice…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
12/ …Umaru Abdullahi, a former President of the Court of Appeal. We sat for the University of Cambridge/WASC Examination together in…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
13/ …1961, the year we graduated.
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
14/ My examination number was 8280002, and I passed the examination in the Second Division.
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
15/ And although the ruling party may want to wish this away, the issue in this campaign cannot be my certificate which I obtained 53…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
16/ …years ago. The issues are the scandalous level of unemployment of millions of our young people, the state of insecurity, the…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
17/ …pervasive official corruption which has impoverished our people and the lack of concern of the government of anything other than…
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
18/ …the retention of power at all costs.
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
19/ Thank you very much.
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
20/ General Muhammadu Buhari
— GMB Campaign Office (@GMBOffice) January 21, 2015
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