I was on my way to work on the morning
of Monday,
January 26, when my friend, Sodiq Alabi,
sent me a
Facebook message asking me how to
contact THISDAY
newspapers since I am more familiar with
newspaper
houses as a regular contributor to issues
in national
dailies.
Sodiq included in the message a web link
to an article in
THISDAY newspaper with the title,
“Cambridge University:
Hausa Language Not Offered in 1961
Exams”. I opened
the article to see these lines:
“The controversy over the secondary
school results of
the All Progressives Congress (APC)
presidential
candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari,
continues as the
University of Cambridge has said that
Hausa Language,
which is one of the subjects listed by
Buhari, was not
offered in its examinations in 1961.
“The disclosure was contained in a
statement from the
office of the Director of the PDP
Presidential Campaign
Organisation claiming it came through an
e-mail dated
Thursday, January 22, 2015 from the
institution’s
Archives Delivery Service Officer, Jacky
Emerson, to one
SODIQ ALABI who requested for
confirmation if the
examination body offered Hausa
Language in the 1961
West African Certificate Examination it
organised.
“Emerson, in his one-sentence reply, said:
“According to
the Regulations for 1961, African
Language papers,
including those for Hausa, WERE NOT
included for West
African School Certificate.”
“This development may have further cast
doubts on the
certificate which is purported to be
General Buhari’s. He
is yet to react to the assertion by the
Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential
Campaign
Organisation that the document (the
published
certificate) was forged and illegally
procured.” (Capitalizations mine)
Sodiq was shocked such falsehood was
attributed to him
by Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode and wanted to
contact the
Editor of THISDAY for such wicked
misrepresentation.
Sodiq Alabi ( sodiqalabi@hotmail.com )
had written an
email to Cambridge Assessment, the brand
name of
University of Cambridge Local
Examinations Syndicates,
on January 22, 2015, 13.31 hours, to
confirm whether
Hausa was truly offered by it in 1961
examinations. By
4.10pm same day, Jacky Emerson
(archives@
cambridgeassessment.org.uk), Archive
Services Delivery
officer of Cambridge Assessment, replied
thus: “Dear
Sodiq Alabi, According to the Regulations
of 1961,
African Language papers, WERE SET for
West Africa
School Certificate.”
A screenshot of this email exchange was
shared with us
on Facebook by Sodiq and it went viral on
the internet.
The email triggered other Nigerians to
send emails to
Cambridge Assessment for independent
confirmation and
the school came out with a release on its
website the
next day. In the release titled, “Statement
in response to
Nigerian Presidential election enquiries”,
the school
stated, “The organisation also confirmed
that according
to the Regulations for 1961, African
Language papers,
including those for Hausa WERE SET for the
West African
School Certificate.” Here is the link to the
Cambridge
Assessment website where this
confirmation was
published: http://
cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/
statement-in-response-to-nigerian-
presidential-election-
enquiries/
.
It is however surprising that Femi Fani-
Kayode went
ahead to alter the content of Sodiq’s email
in his press
statement to, “According to the
Regulations for 1961,
African Language papers, including those
for Hausa,
WERE NOT included for West African School
Certificate.”,
and still quoted the email as the source.
It is very unfortunate that this is the man
speaking for
the President’s re-election campaign. How
do we believe
every other “fact” he has quoted has not
been altered as
well? It is a shame.
It is also very unfortunate that our
newspapers have
gone to sleep and investigative journalism
is at its lowest
ebb in Nigeria. How will Femi Fani-Kayode
not be feeding
newspaper reporters with lies when he
knows how lazy
some of our journalists have become? This
is not an
advertorial that does not require
independent
confirmation. All THISDAY and Daily Post
that reported
this Fani-Kayode’s glaring lie needed to do
is to seek out
Sodiq or confirm from Cambridge – which
had posted a
confirmation statement on conduct of
Hausa language in
1961 WASC on its website since January
23, two days
before Fani-Kayode came up with this lie –
and ask for
their side of the story.
It is particularly curious that I had, in an
earlier article
sent to THISDAY, which was published in
its January 25
edition, attached a screenshot of the email
from Sodiq to
buttress some other arguments, so
THISDAY editors, at
least their OP-ED editor, could not have
claimed not to
have seen the original content of Sodiq’s
email before
Fani-Kayode’s alteration.
This is not the first time President
Jonathan’s men are
forging or altering documents to
demonize anyone
perceived as the President’s “enemy”. His
New Media
Assistant, Reno Omokri, was also busted in
February last
year, when he hid under a pseudonym,
Wendel Simlin, to
send false but damaging reports to
newspapers to
demonize the then just suspended
Governor Lamido
Sanusi of Central Bank. A dig into the
source of the
computer used in typing the document
showed it was a
certain Reno Omokri that authored it!
How lowly can people get?

So, who forged Buhari's statement of result?

Intrigues and Shenanigans ... even in faking fakes Nigerians are hopelessly. hopeless .. and these faking gurus get paid to fake rubbish.. na wa.. GEJ

What a shame!

atlwireles:
So, who forged Buhari's statement of result?

your boss yansh don open,,,shit don common,,,lol

EdCure:
What a shame!

my brother i think from recent events nigerian journalist are the most useless and corrupt in the world

take dis to first page mods,
let hear the opinion of others about this.
#oneNigeria

Tundeajani:
your boss yansh don open,,,shit don common,,,lol

Who forged Buhari's statement of result is the question Nigerians are asking. Also, I don't have a boss.

atlwireles:


Who forged Buhari's statement of result is the question Nigerians are asking. Also, I don't have a boss.

send mail to Cambridge .

elbashyr:

send mail to Cambridge .

See APC forgery, even on NL.

Mr. Tunde, you should've aligned these characters to make good reading.

MalcoImX:
Mr. Tunde, you should've aligned these characters to make good reading.

how?i am only reeling out the news

berem

barcanista

jarus

Say NO To Religious Politics.
If Buhari was pictured attending a
mosque, and it was reported that the
Imam said 'he would open the gates to
hell upon those who oppose Buhari', and
Buhari sat there and said nothing, what
do you think many people would be
saying today?
If Buhari was pictured going to different
mosques and kneeling before Imams, as
part of his campaign, what do we think
the comments would be?
If Buhari was pictured going on
pilgrimage to Mecca, surrounded by a
retinue of fawning Imams, what would
the response be from Nigerians?
If Buhari invited senior Imams from
across the country to a meeting with
him, to discuss the elections and his
campaign strategy, what would the
Nigerian people think?
GEJ has done all the above, and we are
told he has a right to do so as a
committed christian. Buhari has done
none of the above yet he is called a
religious fundamentalist with a plan to
turn Nigeria into an Islamic nation.
Please examine the facts so we can
honestly decide who is acting like the
real religious fundamentalist? Who is
using religious faith as a political ploy to
get votes?
No pastor, Bishop, GO, Reverend Father,
Imam etc etc is GOD. They do NOT have
the right to tell you who to vote for. Go
out there and support the candidate of
your choice. Make your choice based
upon who will give you and your children
a better life and a better Nigeria.
2015
#SayNoToReligiousPolitics

atlwireles:


Who forged Buhari's statement of result is the question Nigerians are asking. Also, I don't have a boss.

you are what yoruba call onikatikati

rainyday:
Say NO To Religious Politics.
If Buhari was pictured attending a
mosque, and it was reported that the
Imam said 'he would open the gates to
hell upon those who oppose Buhari', and
Buhari sat there and said nothing, what
do you think many people would be
saying today?
If Buhari was pictured going to different
mosques and kneeling before Imams, as
part of his campaign, what do we think
the comments would be?
If Buhari was pictured going on
pilgrimage to Mecca, surrounded by a
retinue of fawning Imams, what would
the response be from Nigerians?
If Buhari invited senior Imams from
across the country to a meeting with
him, to discuss the elections and his
campaign strategy, what would the
Nigerian people think?
GEJ has done all the above, and we are
told he has a right to do so as a
committed christian. Buhari has done
none of the above yet he is called a
religious fundamentalist with a plan to
turn Nigeria into an Islamic nation.
Please examine the facts so we can
honestly decide who is acting like the
real religious fundamentalist? Who is
using religious faith as a political ploy to
get votes?
No pastor, Bishop, GO, Reverend Father,
Imam etc etc is GOD. They do NOT have
the right to tell you who to vote for. Go
out there and support the candidate of
your choice. Make your choice based
upon who will give you and your children
a better life and a better Nigeria.
2015
#SayNoToReligiousPolitics

comment on the topic

Tundeajani:
how?i am only reeling out the news

The article is scattered. If you align it, it will look neater and easier to read. If you can't don't bother; the message is understood.

sincerenigerian:
Let me repeat it again; Obasanjo planted Fani Kayode in Jonathan's camp to hurt Jonathan.

I won believe u o! But...

Tundeajani:
jarus

i could recall jarus mentioning a certain guy as reference in his piece, entitled ; 'in defense of buhari', are you the guy?

MalcoImX:
The article is scattered. If you align it, it will look neater and easier to read. If you can't don't bother; the message is understood.

click on the source and enjoy the story,,,my brother i have lost faith in nigerian journalists

Caseless:
i could recall jarus mentioning a certain guy as reference in his piece, entitled ; 'in defense of buhari', are you the guy?

read the whole story and come back to comment,,,this is fraud by ffk

Tundeajani:
my brother i think from recent events nigerian journalist are the most useless and corrupt in the world

All these issue would have been laid to rest if we have professional journalism practitioners. Our Journalists like other "professional" in Nigeria are bunch of jokes.

sincerenigerian:
Let me repeat it again; Obasanjo planted Fani Kayode in Jonathan's camp to hurt Jonathan.

ayaf no bilif u. Ffk is working to get the corruption charges off himself- this case was instituted by obj's gov't , u knw.

Who be you?

Tundeajani:
read the whole story and come back to comment,,,this is fraud by ffk

. I always read b4 I comment, and this i've done before posting my comment. Of all the things u said about ffk, i have heard worst than them about ffk. So i'm not moved by this.

A democracy were even if a journalist has the right information he/she cannot voice it out for fear of the mafias within the reach of the so called people in power.

A democracy were a Judge cannot rule against those in power for fear of being intimidated by the mafias within the reach of these power drunk individuals.

A democracy were freedom of speech is not truely freedom of expression because if I were to express the disgust I have for this administration I'm not sure the papers will publish it neither will the media houses read it and if they do I might as well relocate to another country.

Our journalists are cowards, they have betrayed the very essence of the FOI. There is however one musician who did what journalists may never do anytime soon. Fela A. Kuti and that is what we all remember about him.

Nigerian politicians see politics as politricking the masses to do their bidding.

Be very careful who you vote and be extra careful who you campaign for.

NIGERIANS CAMPAIGN WISELY AND VOTE WISELY CAUSE U'LL BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY AFTER FEB 14th

barcanista:
All these issue would have been laid to rest if we have professional journalism practitioners. Our Journalists like other "professional" in Nigeria are bunch of jokes.

my brother that is it,our journalist are lazy goats only after brown envelope,propaganda and almajiri journalism

atlwireles:


Who forged Buhari's statement of result is the question Nigerians are asking. Also, I don't have a boss.

why can't you people just condemn bad for what it is. Is it because of the Cheap LIKES you hope to get from your fellow PDPians.