I Deliberately Refused To Release My WASC Result – Buhari

Posted by: Folamidavid in News, Politics Jan 24, 2024

The former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina has come out to share why the ex-president refused to release his WAEC result during the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections.

He recently had his say in his book, titled, ‘Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015 – 2023),’ and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to Buhari, he deliberately refused to release his West African School Certificate to allow those venting furiously about it to please themselves.

He added that it would have been impossible for him to attend the Defence Services Staff College in India without sitting for WASC.

Buhari was quoted as saying, “In 2018, I was going through a drawer some days ago, and saw copies of my certificate. I always had it, but refused to release it, so that those venting spleen on it could please themselves.

It would have been impossible for me to attend the Defence Services Staff College, India (1973) and thereafter, United States Army War College, as a Nigerian military officer if I didn’t sit for the WASC examinations in 1961.

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 was necessary, coupled with Geography. We were trained how to be dropped off in the bush, given only a pair of compass and since we’re not astronomers, you’ve to learn to find your way, calculate, using the Pythagoras Theorem and others to work out your position.”