WAEC Issues Attestation Certificate To Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has received the attestation and confirmation of his 1961 West African School Certificate (WASC) Examination result from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

The documents were presented to the President at State House on Friday during a courtesy visit by a delegation of WAEC led by its Registrar, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, accompanied by Olutise Adenipekun, Head, National Office, WAEC, Abiodun Aduloju, Head Public Affairs, WAEC and Olufemi Oke, Zonal Coordinator, WAEC Abuja.

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The President thanked the examination board, established in 1952, and which conducts the WASC examination for University and JAMB entry examination in West African countries, for upholding its integrity over the years, adding that he did not expect anything less from the institution.

President Buhari 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.

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

In his remarks, the Registrar said it was possible for candidates to lose their examination certificates through fire and any other unfortunate incident, saying the Examinations body still has records of the President who sat for the exams in 1961.

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