OBASANJO: I DON'T KNOW HOW BUHARI COULD HAVE BEEN ADMITTED WITHOUT WASC

When I joined the Army in the 1950s, I needed to have a Cambridge certificate or West African School Certificate or GCE with a minimum of six subjects to be able to join the military at the time. 

I don’t know of anybody who was an officer at that time that did not have similar certificates. 

Buhari joined the Army about four years after me and if I needed such a certificate to be admitted into the Army, I don’t know how he could have avoided it.

Assuming he was able to avoid that certificate, Buhari went through a military academy, and went through what you call a staff college which would be the equivalent of a first degree. 

He went through what you call a war college in America where he would have got an equivalent of a master’s degree. 

Our constitution or electoral law requires a school certificate (to become President). Rather than campaign and debate on real issues, we then degenerated to trivialities.

If anybody thinks that I’m illiterate or uneducated after attending many military institutions in the UK, India and the US, they should read my books.