Buhari's Certificate Is Forged - PDP Insist

Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization(PDPPCO) have said the certificate and statement of result of  Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is not authentic. 

The Director of Media and Publicity of the organization, Femi Fani-Kayode said this, at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday.

He said; “Our conclusion from all these is that the document purportedly released by the Government College (Pilot) Katsina, upon which the APC presidential candidate hopes to bury the doubt about his eligibility for next month’s election is forged, manipulated and fraudulently procured. It is 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. If they fail to come forward voluntarily, we hereby call on the police and other security agencies to seek them out, find them, arrest them, interrogate them and prosecute them, in accordance with the laws of the land.”

According to him, having carefully studied  the statement of result which was signed by the school principal and examination officer of the government college, Katsina, the organization believed that the result was far from genuine.

 “The result sheet which was attributed to the Cambridge examination body is clearly a super imposition of one document on another, as you will shortly see in the enlarged image of the result sheet as published. The column lines on the part where names are printed do not align with the blank columns while there is an introduction of extraneous lines on some other columns.”

 “The document contains an obvious alteration on the Mathematics column of the candidate, Mohamed Buhari, who was assumed to have scored an ‘F’ in the subject. This raises a very fundamental issue of validity in view of the fact that the accompanying result sheet states that ‘any alteration or erasure renders this statement of result invalid. This is the standard practice in all interpretation of documents, especially academic records. The question we put to Gen. Buhari and his party is whether this alteration was done by the University of Cambridge.”

Meanwhile, PUNCH Newspaper spoke with the principal of the school, Isyaku Bello who revealed that the certificate was indeed genuine.

He said;“If they are doubting the result, then they should come and see the authentic copy and not the photocopy sent to us by the Cambridge West Africa School. We are here waiting for anybody doubting what we have sent out. We are not running away. Let them come and found out.”