No Objection to Legitimate Scrutiny of My Certificates
My attention has been drawn to reports circulating on social media concerning a legal action by an individual or group seeking Certified True Copies (CTCs) of my Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, awarded to me in 1984 by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), as well as other academic records and credentials relating to my admission into the University.
I wish to state clearly that I have absolutely no objection to the release of these records.
I respectfully request that the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, within the limits permitted by law, make available, upon legitimate request, my academic certificates, records, and other official documents relating to my admission and studies at the University. I equally have no objection to other educational institutions, within and outside Nigeria, which I attended, making my academic records available in accordance with applicable laws and procedures.
I believe strongly in transparency and accountability, particularly for those who seek the privilege of public office. Public scrutiny must, however, be fair, lawful, and applied consistently to everyone who seeks to lead our nation.
As a presidential candidate seeking the trust of Nigerians to lead our country, I welcome legitimate public interest in my background, qualifications, and record. I am prepared to subject myself to the level of scrutiny that should reasonably be expected of anyone seeking the highest office in our country. Those who seek to lead must be willing to demonstrate, through both their words and actions, that they have nothing to conceal from the people they aspire to serve.
In that same spirit, I encourage every presidential candidate to make their educational qualifications and relevant records available for legitimate public scrutiny. Doing so should not be regarded as an inconvenience or an attack. Rather, it is an opportunity to strengthen public confidence, promote accountability, and rebuild the trust of Nigerians in those who seek to govern them.
Leadership must reflect the values we expect from the society we hope to build. If we desire a Nigeria founded on transparency, integrity, accountability, and respect for institutions, those values must begin with those who seek to lead it.
I therefore welcome the scrutiny of my academic background and remain committed to the principle that those who ask Nigerians for their trust must also be willing to earn that trust through openness and accountability.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
What I am hearing about WAEC Nigeria is deeply troubling.
This year recorded the highest performance in the history of WAEC and they are not happy about it.
There is something many Nigerians do not understand about WAEC grading.
The score required for A1, B2, B3, C4 etc. may not simply be a permanently fixed number every year.
From the information available to me, WAEC applies statistical standardisation/normalisation based partly on the overall performance of candidates.
In simple English:
If a paper is unusually difficult and candidates generally perform poorly, the threshold required for a particular grade can effectively be lower.
If candidates perform extraordinarily well, the threshold can become much higher.
So hypothetically, what qualifies as an A in one examination could be around 60, while the statistical threshold in another circumstance could be 80, 90 or even higher.
Your final grade therefore may not tell the complete story of your raw score.
This year involved candidates sitting examinations under different modes, including computer-based/hybrid arrangements and the traditional paper-based system.
And there are serious allegations that questions circulated ahead of time in some paper-based centres.
If that happened on a significant scale, it could artificially inflate the overall performance of that population.
Then comes the critical question:
When WAEC carried out its standardisation, were candidates from fundamentally different examination conditions treated as one population?
Because if leaked questions artificially pushed one group’s scores upwards, and those abnormal scores subsequently influenced grade thresholds, an innocent student who genuinely scored very highly could suddenly appear statistically ordinary.
Imagine scoring what would ordinarily be excellent marks, only to receive a surprisingly poor grade because you were being compared against an abnormal national distribution.
That is the heart of what needs to be investigated.
And it wouldn’t affect only computer-based candidates.
Honest children who wrote paper-based examinations without cheating could also have been punished by the abnormal performance of people who had access to questions.
The innocent students potentially become the victims of the malpractice they never participated in.
This is why WAEC cannot simply tell Nigerians that these children failed.
Show us the data.
What were the raw scores?
What were the score distributions?
What thresholds produced A1, B2, B3, C4, C5 and C6 in each major subject?
Were those thresholds changed after marking?
Were computer-based and paper-based candidates standardised separately?
How were centres showing statistically abnormal performance treated?
And have results changed after candidates requested reviews?
Because I am also receiving disturbing reports that some people who aggressively challenged questionable results got their cases reconsidered, while millions of ordinary parents may not even know they can request a review.
If that is true, it is unacceptable.
A child whose parents have connections cannot have greater access to justice than a child sitting somewhere in a village.
And there is another dimension that must not be ignored: I am receiving serious allegations of internal management problems within WAEC Nigeria, including concerns about how staff who question certain decisions are treated.
Those allegations also deserve an independent investigation.
This is not an attack on WAEC.
It is a demand for accountability.
The Federal Ministry of Education and National Assembly should urgently invite the leadership of WAEC Nigeria.
Because behind every A1, C6 or F9 is not just a statistic.
There is a child. There is a family. There is a university admission. There is a scholarship. There is a future.
We cannot gamble with the destinies of an entire generation of Nigerian children.
I hope those who are praying for Nigeria are pleading for God's mercy as much as they are decreeing and declaring?
We need to admit that we are a wicked bunch and deserve all of God's punishment.
We make much profit from wicked systems and wicked lifestyles, so we prefer the reign of wickedness to the rule of uprightness and integrity.
The interceding church must be honest enough to admit where we currently are, even as we hope that the gospel prevails and brings us into better days.
Let the "Esthers" fast and pray but let them also risk their lives and speak to the King.
God's generals who do "opening prayers" at political rallies and palaces should at least be loud about the bloodshed in the land.
However, if they are too afraid of losing the King's favor, they shouldn't expect their fasting and prayer to have much impact.
My dearly beloved brother in whom is the Spirit of the God of Israel.
Thanks for the past years and we trust God for the coming ones.
Happy birthday @drjoshagunbiade
We have seen shege together, we will see the glory of God together.
Let’s welcome AFRIKANARA.
A movement to reclaim Africa’s truth — not from anger, but from love.
Not from pity, but from pride.
We are not a crisis.
We are a continent waking up.
Africa sees herself true.
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#Afrikanara#IAmNotATribe#AfricaRises
Back to the 63rd Psalm:
David says "early will I seek you, ... My flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land where no water is; to see your power and your glory as I have seen thee in the sanctuary."
It has taken me weeks to put these into writing, weeks I've used to ponder on how best to communicate the gravity of what those words mean.
First of all, don't forget that David was writing this psalm while in exile in the wilderness.
He wasn't on holiday in the wilderness, he was either fleeing from his boss, one who was meant to be like a father to him or he was fleeing from his son Absalom.
Either way, David was running for dear life and he found himself in harsh desert conditions.
In these conditions, he tells us that his desire is to see God's power and glory saturate this unpleasant location in the same way that he has seen in the sanctuary back home.
I know you haven't grabbed it yet.
In the days before the temple of Solomon was built, the sanctuary housed the presence of God because that was where the ark of God was.
The ark of God was a physical representation of not just the tangible 'kabod' or glory but also the power of God.
Not just the Israelites but their neighbours knew that the ark meant that God was dwelling amongst his people in glory and they had seen the wonders done by the hand of God with the ark.
David was also a man of the sanctuary, he expressed gladness when he was invited to the house of God and he was one to go into the house of God even after losing a child.
There was something unique about the sanctuary that no other place had in David's day, it was God's power and glory.
David was running away from civilization to save his life, yet, what he missed was not the cozy beds or the city nightlife.
What he missed was the sanctuary that hosted the ark of God and its consequent power and glory.
So he began to yearn for that same atmosphere to saturate a location not native to it.
In summary, David was saying, "I want to see in this desert what I could only have seen in the holy of holies. The Audacity.
Do you know how used a man would be to staying in the presence of God that when he's in a desert where water is absent what he would notice is not the absence of water but the absence of God's power and glory?
Ah.
Years ago, I was a pre degree student at the university and I was a member of the pre degree fellowship.
We had an experience in those days that were not common place in many campus fellowships at the time. Prophecies, accurate words of knowledge, healing and deliverance et cetera.
When our 1 year predegree was over and we were now undergraduates, we couldn't still be members of that fellowship so we all had to find our way to different campus fellowships.
I found myself in a fellowship that was like a metaphorical desert compared to where I was coming from.
Nobody used to attend prayer meetings except the one person who was prayer band leader. He was just leading himself.
I asked him once, "when last did prophecy break out in this fellowship"? He said he had never seen it before.
Ah.
It was then that like David, I began to intercede, I didn't leave the fellowship in search of other 'jim jim' fellowships.
But I began to pray David's prayer.
"To see your power and your glory like I have seen you in the sanctuary".
I want to see your power and your glory in this fellowship like I have previously seen.
God answered.
Like David, it is possible that you have found yourself where you wouldn't have chosen to be and your best experiences of God are in your history.
It's also possible that where you have found yourself is also lacking the basic needs of your life so that your best experiences of the good things of life are also in your history.
Sadly very often, people tend to chase water and care almost nothing about the glory of God.
But not David, and today, not Rasine.
Lord, when I spend time with you, there is power. I see your fire when I tarry in your presence. But when I come outside everywhere is dry, it is like there's no God in the land.
Can you go public with our private moments?
We need intercessors like David in our churches, fellowships, nations, who do not mind putting their need for drinking water in the back seat so that they can secure living water for their immediate context.
Men who love the sanctuary as a native habitat and so can detect when any place isn't it.
In this day and age there are places that are real deserts but do not literally appear so.
They're made attractive by decorations. There are many nations like this.
People troop there for greener pastures but in reality it is a decorated desert. It takes only one who knows what the sanctuary looks and feels like to easily spot the deception.
Even deserts have been decorated to look like sanctuaries but in reality a desert remains one. Churches that have been made to look like something spiritual is going on there but in reality God's power and glory is lacking there.
What we need in these places are intercessors who have tasted of the power of the age to come and hence can't be decieved by the glamour.
It may be beautiful but if glory is not there the beauty is makeup.
My name is Rasine and I'm a hunter in search of the glory.
JUNE: A couple of cities in Pakistan & Ibadan
If in Ibadan, would be great to see you. The Lord will be gracious to us.
Wherever you are, you can pray for us as we head to Pakistan for much help from the Lord.
Exodus 32:26
Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side?...
There is a mixed multitude amongst the people of the Lord and there's a call out. The Lord needs His people to stand for Him and raise His banner high.