Can we just end this 'result' wahala?

Despite the presentation of the secondary certificate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, by his
school, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation
(PCO) has described the document as"'Oluwole" - a euphemism for forgery -
and tendered evidence.
But the Principal of Government Collage, Katsina, Alhaji Isiyaku Bello Bello, in a
swift reaction, told THISDAY: "If they are doubting the result, then they should
come and see the authentic copy and not the photocopy sent to us by the
Cambridge West Africa School. We are here waiting for anybody doubting what
we have sent out."
But addressing news men on Thursday, the PDP Presidential Campaign
spokesman, Femi Fani Kayode, said, "The results sheet which was attributed to
the Cambridge examination body is clearly a super-imposition of one document
on another as you will shortly see in the enlarged image of the result sheet as
published. The column lines on the part where names are printed do not align
with the blank columns while there is an introduction of extraneous lines on
some other columns."
He tried to illustrated from a computer the super-imposition on the photo-
copied result sheet. "The document contains an obvious alteration on the
Mathematics column of the candidate, Mohamed Buhari, who was assumed to
have scored an “F” in the subject," Fani-Kayode continued. "This raises a very
fundamental issue of validity in view of the fact that the accompanying result
sheet states that “any alteration or erasure renders this statement of Results
invalid. This is the standard practice in all interpretation of documents,
especially academic records.
"The question we put to Gen Buhari and his party is whether this alteration was
done by the University of Cambridge. One of the footnotes on the document
purportedly issued by the University of Cambridge says: 'The results of this
candidate in all subjects except English Language have been carried forward
from the 1960 examination.' The question arising from this is: When exactly did
Buhari sit for all the other subjects claimed to have been passed in the
secondary school examination?
"Our conclusion from all these is that the documents purportedly released by
Government College (Pilot) Katsina, upon which the APC Presidential candidates
hopes to bury the doubt about his eligibility for next month’s election are
forged, manipulated and fraudulently procured. They are therefore untenable in
fact and in law.
"We do not know who the authors and masterminds of this forgery are but
whoever they are, we urge them to come forward and be identified. If they fail
to come forward voluntarily, we hereby call on the Police and other security
agencies to seek them out, find them, arrest them, interrogate them and
prosecute them in accordance with the laws of the land."