Chidi Samuel|
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said that he wrote the West African School Certificate Examination with late Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in 1961 and that they were primary and secondary schools classmates.
According to the President, both of them joined the Army after the completion of their West African School Certificate Examination.
President Buhari stated this while receiving his WAEC certificate from the registrar, West African Examinations Council, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, at the President’s mini-conference hall at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Using his verified Twitter handle @MBuhari after the presentation, the President tweeted:
“Today I received the attestation and confirmation of my 1961 West African School Certificate (WASC) Examination result from the Registrar of the West African Examinations Council.
“It was also an opportunity for me to thank WAEC for upholding its integrity over the years.
“As a Nigerian military officer, it would have been impossible for me to have attended the Defence Services Staff College in India in 1973, and, after that — in 1979 — the United States Army War College, had I not sat for the WASC examinations, which I did in 1961.
“The late Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua was my classmate. We spent close to nine years in boarding school, at primary and secondary levels.
“And from there, after our WASC, we moved to join the Army, where we had to take a military examination as one of the requirements.”