The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has described “the sudden release of a suspicious confirmation of result by WAEC in favour of Buhari few days to the commencement of the suit seeking to disqualify Buhari from the 2019 election” as “laughable, unbelievable and a desperate effort to mislead the court and shield Buhari from disqualification from participation in the 2019 general election.”

CUPP in a statement issued in Abuja by the National Spokesperson Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere on Friday evening called on WAEC to produce the official ledger and booklet containing the scores and records of names of students of the Provincial Secondary School Katsina (now called Government Secondary School) who sat for the exam in 1961 and not the manufactured after thought confirmation of result which is not backed with any evidence to show President Buhari participated in the 1961 exams.

The opposition spokesperson went further to say that WAEC succumbed to high level pressure to issue out the document which is suspicious and aimed at misleading Nigerians and the court to believe that Buhari sat for the WAEC certificate exam when in actual sense he did not, as there is no evidence to support the assertion .

“Let Nigerians be reminded that few days ago the opposition raised an alarm that there was ongoing move to tamper with the records of WAEC and pressure the leadership into manufacturing a result for President Buhari. Today’s action of WAEC have vindicated our earlier fears and confirmed our stand that WAEC is now competing with Oluwole Market in manufacturing documents,” he said.

Concluding, the CUPP challenged WAEC to publicly display the original 1961 ledger and booklet containing the names of the 1961 candidates who sat for the exam from the provincial secondary school Kastina to back up their confirmation of result issued to Buhari or apologise to Nigerians for attempting to mislead with the booklet and destroy the credibility of the once respected examination body noting: “No amount of desperation and engineered misinformation can change the minds of Nigerian voters from voting out the incompetent regime of President Buhari that has destroyed the Nigerian economy, divided our people and made our nation insecure.”