{"id":13220,"date":"2018-11-04T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13220"},"modified":"2018-11-04T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T13:12:54","slug":"waec-disagrees-with-presidency-says-buhari-applied-for-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13220","title":{"rendered":"WAEC disagrees with Presidency, says Buhari applied for results"},"content":{"rendered":"

We would not have given him the document if he didn\u2019t apply. It is only Buhari or a court that can ask for the results. There is no other person. So he asked for it\u2013WAEC<\/em><\/strong>
\nNo, the President did not apply for the documents. I made this clear in an opinion I wrote on Friday. The presentation of the documents to the President was strictly an initiative of WAEC\u00a0\u2013Shehu<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Presidency and the West African Examinations Council, on Saturday, disagreed on the reason for the issuance of an Attestation of Results to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.
\nWhile the Presidency insisted that Buhari didn\u2019t apply for the results of the West African School Certificate Examination, which he claimed to have sat for in 1961, the examination body said the document was issued because the President applied for it.
\nWAEC\u2019s spokesman, Damianus Ojijeogu, stated this in an interview with our correspondent on Saturday.
\nOjijeogu, in an interview with\u00a0SUNDAY PUNCH, said, \u201cWe would not have given him the document if he didn\u2019t apply. It is only Buhari or a court that can ask for the results. There is no other person. So he asked for it.\u201d
\nAlso, WAEC said in issuing an Attestation of Results to replace a lost or missing WAEC certificate, the subjects, where the candidate had F9, would no longer be captured.
\nWAEC Nigeria said these on its Twitter handle, @waecnigeria, on Saturday, while answering questions from several Nigerians on the omission of F9 from Buhari\u2019s attestation.
\n\u201cThat is WAEC Twitter handle. It is correct,\u201d Ojijeogu added, confirming the authenticity of the post on the handle.
\nThe documents were presented to the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, during a courtesy visit by a delegation of WAEC led by its Registrar, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae.
\nUwadiae was accompanied by the Head, National Office, WAEC, Olutise Adenipekun; Head, Public Affairs, WAEC, Abiodun Aduloju; and the Zonal Coordinator, WAEC Abuja, Olufemi Oke.
\nBuhari received the documents amidst the controversy generated over his claim in his details presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission that his credentials were with the Military Board.
\nThe board had subsequently declared the President\u2019s certificate missing, hence the need for him to get an attestation and a confirmation.
\nEarlier on its Twitter handle on Saturday, the examination body had stated, \u201cYou cannot apply for Attestation of Results or any other document if you have not registered and sat for the examination.
\n\u201cThe documents for application are a letter of application, police report on lost or damaged certificate, photocopy of lost or damaged certificate, two recent passport-sized photographs of the candidate, sworn affidavit for collection of attestation of results and administrative fee of N20,000.\u201d
\nBut the Presidency, which spoke through Buhari\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the initiative to make the documents available to the President was that of the examination body.
\nShehu, in an interview with\u00a0SUNDAY PUNCH\u00a0on Saturday, said WAEC authorities made it clear that they read about the controversy generated by the President\u2019s missing certificate and saw the need to save the council\u2019s integrity.
\nThe presidential spokesman added, \u201cNo, the President did not apply for the documents. I made this clear in an opinion I wrote on Friday.
\n\u201cThe presentation of the documents to the President was strictly an initiative of WAEC.
\n\u201cThey said they read about the controversy on the pages of newspapers and saw the need to save the integrity of the council.\u201d
\nShehu had, in an opinion, titled \u2018President Buhari, WAEC and PDP\u2019s toxic air\u2019, on Friday, quoted the examination body as saying that the controversy concerning Buhari\u2019s school certificate was embarrassing and felt a sense of duty to produce and deliver the documents to him.
\nHe had said, \u201cThis is a god-send, with WAEC being a non-political entity. This should put to rest the absurd allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party, brought up again and again, that he (Buhari) did not attend a secondary school.\u201d
\nWAEC said the controversy surrounding the President\u2019s picture was due to a guideline that the council used the photograph of the applicant for the attestation and not the pupil\u2019s picture as of the time of sitting for the examination.
\nWAEC also said it did not issue the attestation of results to Buhari in 2015 because there was no application for it.
\nIt said, \u201cWAEC does not record fail in certificates. He (Buhari) did not apply for it in 2015. In August 2015, the council introduced Attestation of Results that can be obtained on request and that can serve as a replacement for lost or missing certificates.
\n\u201cIt should be the passport photo he (Buhari) submitted during the application for Attestation of Results. Attestation of Results carries passport of the candidate\u2019s application when he or she applied. Candidates were first issued Attestation of Results by WAEC Nigeria in 2015.
\n\u201cWhat we presented to President Buhari on Friday was a Statement\/Attestation of Results and not a certificate. Subjects that a candidate had F9s in are no longer captured in certificates or Attestation of Results.
\nBy Punch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We would not have given him the document if he didn\u2019t apply. It is only Buhari or a court that can ask for the results. There is no other person. So he asked for it\u2013WAEC No, the President did not apply for the documents. I made this clear in an opinion I wrote on Friday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}