While briefing the media yesterday on his secondary school certificate saga,
Gen. Buhari mentioned two prominent
Nigerians he went to school with, former president of the Court of
Appeal, Justice Umaru Abdullahi and former inspector-general of police,
Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie. The two men have spoken to the media
confirming that they indeed went to school together.
In an interview with
Leadership, Alhaji Coomasie said they and five other prominent
Nigerians attended the same school.
Coomasie said Buhari was the head boy and loved to play football during
their days in school. He mentioned the former PCA Justice Abdullahi; Gen
Shehu Musa
Yar’Adua; the late Grand Khadi Halilu, and a Second Republic senator
Abdul Ali as some of their classmates.
Coomassie said:
“While we were in school, Buhari was the head boy. He
loves playing football. We were all close friends in school. After we
finished secondary school, General Buhari decided to join the military, I
joined the police and Justice Abdullahi decided to go to the
university.”
“I, the late Shehu Yar’Adua, the late Halilu, a Grand Khadi in
Katsina, Senator Abdul Ali, a Senator in the 2nd Republic and several
other attended the same school”
On his part, Justice Abdullahi described
Buhari as a brilliant
student when they were in school, saying he was Buhari’s classmate from
primary to secondary school, saying:
“I, Buhari and some others had the
best results during our final examinations in secondary school back
then. He was a very brilliant student in school, no doubt; we attended
the same school from primary to secondary school.”
Meanwhile, Katsina College has confirmed custody of Buhari's result. The authorities of the college, Government College, Katsina, yesterday confirmed that
General Buhari sat and obtained the school leaving certificate.
The principal of the school said that Buhari obtained
the WASC/Cambridge University Exams certificate in 1961, adding that the
school had released his result yesterday, in line with general’s
request.
“One Prof Haruna Kaita wrote to the school on behalf of
General Muhamnadu Buhari, demanding his result and we have since released it to
the said professor.”
The result showed that Buhari got the following scores:
English – 5 (credit), Hausa-5 (credit) English Lit – 7(pass), History -3
(Good), Geography – 6 (Credit) Maths – 9 (Fail), Health Science – 6
(credit), Woodwork – 9 (fail).
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