Buhari Passed Cambridge/ WASC Examination

Buhari Passed Cambridge/ WASC Examination

With Division 2 In 1961,

General Aliyu Gusau Narrates Published on

January 24, 2015 By

Greenbarge Reporters:

Nigerian Minister of Defence, General Aliyu

Gusau has confirmed that he was a school

mate of General Muhammadu Buhari who is

currently the Presidential candidate of All

Progressives Congress (APC) for the February 14

election.

“You know that I’m not a politician but the

truth needs to be told that I know Buhari

since 1960. He passed through the school

that I also attended. He sat for his Cambridge/

WASC examination and came out with Division 2.

He then joined the

Army, rose to become Major General and

Head of State.” General Gusau, who reacted

today to the lingering controversies dogging the

secondary school certificate of General

Buhari when he spoke to newsmen, wondered

why uptil now, the Old Students Association

which was formed years ago had not come out

to defend its member, in the person of General

Buhari.

“We had just formed an association of old

students of Katsina Provincial School, right

from when it was a Middle School till date.

And His Royal Highness, the Emir of

Katsina, as an ex student of the school,

invited some of us as the representatives of

different sets, to his palace and we decided

to even form a secretariat. I thought that the

secretariat of our association should

have clarified the status of Buhari’s certificates

long before it took this

dimension.”

General Gusau said that he met General

Buhari in the Katsina Provincial Secondary

School when he was enrolled into the

School in January 1960, the year of

independence.

“General Buhari, at that, was in form five. I

stayed two years with General Buhari at the

school. They passed out in 1961 and we passed

out in 1964. Buhari had leadership qualities since

secondary school; in form five, he was a House

Prefect.

“Their set went up to form six but we were

the first set that finished school at form

five. Normally, out of those in form five,

the school authorities used to pick House

Prefects and when they get to form six, House

Captains were chosen from those who were

House Prefects. In Buhari’s case, he was a House

Prefect in 1960 when we joined. By 1961, when

he was in form six, he was chosen to be the

Head Boy of the School. “There were four Houses

during our time in the school; Magaji House,

Kaura House, Alkali House and Durbi House.

Buhari was the House Prefect of Magaji House in

1960, Justice Umaru Abdullahi was the

HousePrefect of Alkali House, the late Mamman A

Zango who became a policeman, was House

Prefect of Kaura House while the

late General Shehu Musa Yarádua was

House Prefect of Durbi House. By 1961, all

of them became the House Captains of

their respective Houses but Buhari became

the Head Boy.”