{"id":143023,"date":"2024-01-24T20:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/24\/buhari-purposely-didnt-release-his-original-waec-certificate-femi-adesina\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T20:46:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:46:35","slug":"buhari-purposely-didnt-release-his-original-waec-certificate-femi-adesina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/24\/buhari-purposely-didnt-release-his-original-waec-certificate-femi-adesina\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Purposely Didn\u2019t Release His Original WAEC Certificate \u2014 Femi Adesina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-907542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240121_200239.jpg\" alt=\"Muhammadu Buhari\" width=\"1024\" height=\"830\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Femi Adesina, ex-spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, says his principal has always had the original copy of his West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in his book \u201cWorking with Buhari: Reflections Of A Special Adviser, Media And Publicity (2015 \u2013 2023).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that his principal purposely did not make his certificate public<\/p>\n<p>According to him, after the 2015 presidential election was concluded, he received a call from Iyi Uwadiae, Registrar of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), informing him that since Buhari\u2019s certificate was nowhere to be found, the council would arrange an attestation copy for him.<\/p>\n<p>The issuance of attestation copy by the council, he noted, would be based on request by Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Adesina said he proceeded to the president\u2019s house immediately to brief him about the phone conversation he had with the Registrar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Japa: \u2018In Two Weeks, Over 30,000 Nigerians Applied For Passports\u2019 \u2014 NIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In response, he wrote that Buhari smiled and said to him: \u201cI was going through a drawer some days ago, and saw copies of my certificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always had it, but refused to release it, so that those venting spleen on it could please themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recall that prior to the 2015 presidential election, there was controversy surrounding Buhari\u2019s academic certificate.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2014, Buhari tendered an affidavit to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), claiming that the military board was in possession of his academic credentials.<\/p>\n<p>But the Peoples Democratic Party kicked against the submitted affidavit, arguing that Buhari was unfit to contest without a certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Army later said it was not in possession of Buhari\u2019s certificate, noting that his personal file does not contain any certificate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-723852094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femi Adesina, ex-spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, says his principal has always had the original copy of his West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). This was disclosed in his book \u201cWorking with Buhari: Reflections Of A Special Adviser, Media And Publicity (2015 \u2013 2023).\u201d He maintained that his principal purposely did not make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari Purposely Didn\u2019t Release His Original WAEC Certificate \u2014 Femi Adesina - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/24\/buhari-purposely-didnt-release-his-original-waec-certificate-femi-adesina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari Purposely Didn\u2019t Release His Original WAEC Certificate \u2014 Femi Adesina - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Femi Adesina, ex-spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, says his principal has always had the original copy of his West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). 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