1) Why are the dates on the certificate stamped 2015 and not 1961?
Answer: "The stamp and date served as authentication that the document was truly retrieved from the records of that Secondary School and it emanated from there. And, it MUST bear the date it was forwarded! And, Cambridge University also sent a computer print-out of the same certificate! So, the certificate itself bears 1961 while the stamp of the retrieving and forwarding establishment bears the date the retrieved document was forwarded (ie today's date). I am a professional Administrator." ~ Olasunkanmi Sukky Adeleke
2) There was no Primary 6 in Nigeria in the 1960's. Why did Buhari leave secondary school at 18/19?
Answer: Please see this write-up on Nigeria's educational history from pre- colonisation to date. In the 1950's and at least the early 1960's, Nigerian children spent 6 years in primary school, and 7 years in secondary school. "In the 1950s, Nigeria adopted the British system called Form Six that divided grades into six elementary years, three junior secondary years, two senior secondary years, and a two-year university preparation program. Those who scored high on exit examinations at the end of Form Six usually were qualified to enter universities." Read more: Nigeria - History Background - Education, Students, Schools, and Primary - StateUniversity.com http://education.stateuniversity.com/…/Nigeria-HISTORY-BACK…
3) The army said Buhari had a pass in English but his certificate shows a credit in English.
Answer: The army actually said he had a pass in English Literature and a credit in English Language. Many peeps heard pass in English literature, and immediately jumped to the conclusion the army meant English grammar. smile emoticon The link below provides copies of the army's letter and other documentation in Buhari's file. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/…/175352-exclusive-nigerian-a…
4) If the certificate is false, why is the Buhari campaign confident enough to provide it to the press.
Answer: The Buhari campaign freely releasing this document to the media is the strongest piece of evidence that the documents are real. With all the information provided on the documentation, anyone can directly approach the Cambridge exams board, WAEC, The Katsina Education Ministry and Government College Katsina, to verify the information. With the examination number given on the certificate, it will be easy for those organisations to respond quickly. Please remember that this certificate was released directly by Katsina College, who made a copy available to Premium Times.
5) Why is his name spelled Muhammadu Buhari, but is Mohamed Buhari on the certificate? Answer: Nigerian names commonly have many different variations of spellings, and it is not uncommon to find Nigerians with different spelling variations of their names on different documents - certificates, passports, birth certificates et etc Some people will always insist on spelling one's name the way they prefer even after seeing the correct spelling written out! That happens to me loadsa times... *wink*
6) As Katsina State was not created until 1987, why is this certificate on the letterhead of the Katsina State Ministry of Education?
Answer: Buhari's secondary school, used to be known as Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, but is now called Government College Katsina. It is located in what used to be Katsina Province, but became Katsina State in 1987. As Katsina College is issuing a certified copy of Buhari's original documentation, they have transcribed it upon the official certificates used by the State today. It is why the exam is dated 1961 but it is stamped and dated by the principal on 21/1/2015 - the date the school reissued a copy of the certificate. "~1947: Ibadan province split from Oyo; Katsina province formed from parts of Sokoto and Zaria; Rivers province split from Owerri." http://www.statoids.com/ung.html
7) Why does the certificate show a photograph of Buhari today?
Answer: Buhari sat for the exams of the Cambridge University West African School Certificate - which is the exam body that set the exams at the time. Photographs were not a requirement to be put on the certificate. However, WAEC now issues certificates with the photograph of the candidate. Thus to satisfy the protocol of today, his current photograph has to be on the certificate.
8) Buhari has a credit in Hausa language. Surely Hausa language was not taught in schools in 1961?
Answer: The educational system in Northern and Southern Nigeria in the Colonial Era was very different. Hausa was the official language of the Colonial administration in Northern Nigeria. Hausa was taught in colonial schools all through the colonial era. "Hausa in the Twentieth Century: an overview" by John Edward Philips is particularly instructive. Page 25 talks about Hausa being the official language of the Colonial government in Northern Nigeria. org.uib.no/smi/sa/15/15Philips.pdf
9) Can any of Buhari's classmates verify he sat the exams in 1961?
Answer: Coomassie (Ex Inspector General of Police) and Justice Abdullahi (Former President Court of Appeal for 10 years) have both confirmed they were Buhari's classmates and all sat the WAEC examinations at the same time. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/…/175408-i-sat-for-wasc-exams…
10) Why does Buhari have such a beautiful wife???
Answer: Errrm, that one you will have to ask General Buhari o! He must have excellent taste!
Lol ~ Bucky 2015"
Dear Professor Ademola Dasylva,I remember enrolling with you as a PhD student in the early 200s at the University of Ibadan, even though I did not continue, being quite restless at the time.Your words to me then were that I must compile a large number of literature in the field and read half of those texts before proceeding any further to work with you.That demand from you challenges me till today.Why are you supporting as candidate for Presidency of our country, perhaps the greatest country in Africa, a country that demonstrates the largest economy and population in Africa, a country with some of the most highly educated people in the world working all over the globe, a man who does not even have a secondary school education, in a world where knowledge has reached a higher premium than ever in history, a world in which anybody born before the Information Revolution has to struggle to catch up?thankstoyin--On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Ademola O. Dasylva <dasylvaus@gmail.com> wrote:The anti-Buhari virtual warlords and gladiators are characteristic of demonstrating, in their writings, evidence of desperation and frustration. It is a self-inflicted pain, and they do not deserve any sympathy from patriotic Nigerians. Their arsenal of "war" including character assassination on the person of the rtd General - educational qualification, poor health, ethnicity, military dictatorship, and now, RELIGION, is exhausted already, unfortunately, without any effect whatsoever on the psyche of genuine patriots! The invectives, specious arguments and deliberate trumped up lies are a waste of valuable time, and mere distractions from the main and general issues of putting a proper lid on an otherwise endowed Nation's disintegration. Genuine patriots are concerned more about mis-governance, hyper-corruption (looted and emptied national treasury), impunity, unwarranted militarization of election & polls, partisanship of the Police IG, and general insecurity, including, government's conducts, to date, on the abducted Chibok girls, abducted women, young men and school children, daily carnage and slaughtering of hundreds of innocent citizens, loss of 20 or more local governments to insurgents, unattended cases of widows, widowers, orphans and thousands of displaced citizens waiting in vain for help, without any sign of help from the crop of present rulers. Our pride as Nigerians is thoroughly messed up, our country now is like a dismembered giant on which vultures perch and feed from the carrion. Even neighboring countries we have always considered as poor are doing much better in dealing with the BH insurgents.I am more than persuaded that those who canvas for the continuation of this most tragic scenario, or want the status quo ante to persist, could only have been co-perpetrators of the nightmare the nation has found itself, or they are direct or indirect beneficiaries of the ungodly rots in Nigeria, and are NOW scared of the imminent retribution. May God forgive them if they repent.Ademola Dasylva.
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election is NOT about religion; it is about religion [3 Attachments]As far as the record shows, Buhari has one wife. She is his second wife because the first was apparently divorced for accepting financial help when he was ousted from power and under restraint.This sort of stuff - divisive and fabricated - is why many run as fast as they can from dreadful groups like Naija Observer - an "observer" which fails to see glaring facts. But here it is, attempting to stir ethno-religious division from the safety of wherever, on the USA Africa Dialogue. So what even if Buhari did have two wives? Many of us have families whose Muslim members have more than one wife and they are not in contest with their Christian relatives who have only one. Oh, but sorry, that is what is happening in a part of the "rest of Muslim Nigeria" and since it doesn't fit the narrative of an "unbridgeable chasm", we have to ignore that.
As for the actual writer of the polemic, he is deluding himself if he imagines that the "Christian East" knows nothing of polygamy!
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Date: Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:56 PM
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[Attachment(s) from Zubbie Ekwueme included below]POLYGAMYin NigeriaWho says this election is not about religion; it is about religion. Yes, it is about religion and the impact it has on all Nigeria. In a two religion world of Nigeria, President Jonathan, a Christian and Muhammadu Buhari a Muslim, are about to have the fight of their respective lives. This is a religious contest between Islam Sharia advocates, and Christian Democracy.Jonathan and wifePresident Jonathan has one wife. Muhammadu Buhari has many as a Muslim.Today, we begin to examine the political geology of Nigeria. Let us start with the word POLYGAMY and examine how the Muslims and Christian look at the same word. We explore the deep, and unbridgeable cultural and religions chasm that separates Christian Eastern Nigeria with the rest of Muslim Nigeria. This academically quasi-discipline, seeks to look underneath the Nigeria rug, for the ethnic, religious and political infrastructure that make Nigeria most unstable as a failed state. A good analogy is; when water or light is not working well in your home, common sense will compel you to go downstairs with a flashlight in hand. You examine the infrastructure to see where the problem lies. We intend to go below the green-white-green rug of Nigeria to see what is happening underneath. And why don't the world know about it.Buhari without his wives
Muhammadu Buhari hardly shows up with his wives in any given election event.On any topic under the sun, these two vastly disparate and divergent people do not and can never agree or see eye to eye on any topic. Nigeria is the classic definition of the parallax world. Christian East Nigeria understand things differently, perceive things differently from their Muslim counterpart, echoing the incompatibility of both religions. Islamic Sharia and Christian Democracy must not be allowed to co-exist in one political space. If this dictum is violated as it being violated in Nigeria today, blood will spill in the streets.Let us take a look at one topic - POLYGAMY amongst many. If you are Muslim and come from the Hausa/Fulani north, it is no brainer. You are in support. If you are a Muslim from the west, you'd almost certainly support the practice. The Awoists - the Christian Yoruba have been mauled from power and becoming extinct. However, if you come from the Christian SESS region, you tend not to even though our origins had supported it. That shows the power of education and Christian teaching.The SESS region and MUSLIM NIGERIA are exactly on the opposite sides on this topic of polygamy. We must separate to make our own laws, sex is lure that make people turn to Islam.
The SESS region, have already kissed this antiquated, primitive practice goodbye. Take a look at what it had produced. The Okonjo Iwealas, Oby Ezekwesilis, Bianca Ojukwus, Akuabata Njaezes, Stella Oduahs, and Diezani Alison-Maduekes, to name but a few. No ethnicity that looks down on, and sits on their women fold, as the Muslims will ever come close to producing acclaimed women of valor. If we in the SESS were not lucky to kill that stupid practice, nipping it in the bud, these women would have never fulfilled their life dreams. We would have married them many to one man destroying their individualism.. We'd have kept them from the work force, keeping them barefoot and pregnant. Muslims do that, and a lot worse. The nations of the SESS of Nigeria are superior to the rest of Nigeria, because it has the essentials of a Judeo-Christian culture. If your allow your women to get educated just as you educate your men, try marrying them off 4 or 5 to one man, and see what happens to you.ONLY THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN PEOPLES HAVE THE DNA TO BE BLESSED WITH WOMEN OF VALOR. JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THESE WOMEN BELOW . ALL FROM THE SESS REGION OF NIGERIA
These are the accomplished women from Christian Nigeria. All have excelled in their chosen professionI came from a polygamous family myself. So I should know. There is no peace in any polygamous home. There are always attitudinal jealousy, gossip and even attacks. The practice of polygamy should be allowed to die, because it sees women as chattel, to be married off many to one man. It is an anti-women practice that denigrates women setting them up for just as mere reproduction machines. It creates and feeds the man-is-superior hegemonic order, that is unsustainable. It is not what it is cracked up to be, and I should know.
But do not tell that to the Muslims, they will fucking kill you. Islam will always mortgage the lives of half of it population - the women folk. Honor killing, forced marriage, whipping and even beheading is a steady diet Muslim women endure. In an essentially male society of Islamic societies it is a horror to be caught with another man not your brother. A man is delegated to chaperon a grown woman. Who is minding the ban then. Boko Haram will steal 300 Christian girls and sell them away. If that is not looking down on women, I don't know what is.
Is Dr Femi Adebayo a Muslim. He talks like one. By the way you know that 50% of the Yoruba are Muslims. Before long Yoruba land will become a majority Islamic state. Has Dr Adebayo ever wanted to know why the SESS has the preponderance of the of women occupying high office in Nigeria. That may not be his concern. But it is ours. We are not the same as Muslims. The Northern or Western Muslims of Nigeria lack the DNA for inclusiveness? We are not one with Muslims.
The SESS region has its own share of flaming liberal, cultural revanchists, who have bought into this conundrum of African religion. Indigenous religions are usually Ogonmuo or Ifa as the case may be. These cultural revanchists have helped the post war federal Military government in its efforts to de-Christianize the SESS. You see, after the war, when Biafra lay dead and battered, the victorious military government had a decree that banned all Christian owned and run schools. They victorious military government hoped to produced unbelievers like our liberals. They succeeded. These liberals are not helping us, by looking down at our Judeo-Christian ethics, principles and worldview. Some of them even support polygamyThere are two kinds of Nigeria, not one.There is the Christian Nigeria and the Muslim Nigeria. More than one half of Nigeria is Muslims (60%) and the other half is Christians (55%) plus a sprinkling of believers in the indigenous African religions.The SESS is the region is the Christian region of Nigeria. It is abundantly gifted with the OIL wealth, that makes Nigeria get noticed. Before the Biafran war, it boasted of 98% Christian population. Today, the more than 55 million people that occupy this region, are being picked off one by one, by Islamic autocrats, for coerced conversion to Islam. Consequently, they are held a captive Christian region much like the Coptic Christians of Egypt todayAfter they were defeated in the Biafran war, they were dragged, kicking and screaming into OIC, an organization that carters for only Islamic nations, meaning a forced conversion of whole 55 million people. We not Muslims, but Christians that that had been defeated and our OIL stolen, leaving a once vibrant Eastern Nigeria the least developed in all Nigeria. They own the OIL, but were grudgingly allowed a 13% derivative. Everybody there are scratching their heads.They own the OIL that built Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan, Kaduna and all Nigeria, with the exception of the East, who own the OIL.This is another topic for another day...
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