Another classmate of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, has come out to defend him over his recently released statement of result and credentials.
After the result was released, the Peoples Democratic Party cried foul, saying it was inauthentic, as ‘Hausa Language’ was not offered as a subject in the Cambridge/West Africa School Certificate Examination in 1961.
However, a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Umar Abdulahi, has come out to categorically attest to the fact that the set of 1961, sat for Hausa in the WASC examination at the then Provincial Secondary School, in Katsina.
Abdulahi, while speaking to Punch on Sunday, January 25, said: “There were a lot of options. There was Hausa, there was Arabic language in 1961.”
Similarly, the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, now known as Cambridge Assessment, confirmed on Friday, January 23, that it offered Hausa along with some other African languages in the 1961 WASC examination.
A statement was posted on the Cambridge Assessment’s website, saying: “According to the Regulations for 1961, African Language papers, including those for Hausa, were set for the West African School Certificate.”
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