SaharaReporters has obtained Senator
Dino Melaye’s West African Examination Council (WAEC) result sheets
showing that the embattled senator was a dismal student who earned only
three credits.
The result sheet for the senator, a member of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) who represents Kogi West senatorial
district, came from a secondary school attended by Mr. Melaye, even
though he had kept that aspect of his academic history hidden from the
public by scrubbing the school from his profile on the website of the
Nigerian Senate.
Mr. Melaye sat for the WAEC exams at the
Abdulazeez Attah Memorial College, Okeke in Kogi State. His results,
exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, reveal that Senator Melaye,
whose name on the result sheets was registered as Daniel Jonah O.
Melaiye, only made three credits in Christian Religious Studies (C5),
Agricultural Science (A3) and Biology (C6). Melaye took 6 other subjects
including English Language (P8), Mathematics (P8), Chemistry (P8),
Economics (P7) and Physics (F9).
The dismal performance meant
that Mr. Melaye did not have the minimum requisite credits to gain
admission into a Nigerian university to study for a bachelor’s degree.
In fact, the only way he could have been admitted for studies at a
Nigerian university was if he earned other credits from another
secondary school. Mr. Melaye did not list his secondary school education on his www.linkedin.com
profile. Nor did he provide it on his senatorial profile on the website
of the Nigerian National Assembly. Instead, he listed Gandun Nasarawa
Primary School in Kano as the source of his West African School
Certificate. Pupils in primary school are not eligible to sit WAEC
exams.
Authorities at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria have
stopped responding to inquiries from the media to provide proof that
Mr. Melaye fulfilled the requirements for admission and graduation at
the university in 1993. Two of Mr. Melaye’s classmates yesterday
disclosed that the senator was impeached as the President of the
National Association of Geography Students (NAGS) in 1998/99 because he
was accused of stealing a brand new TV set purchased by the association.
He replaced the stolen TV set with an old one.
Since Mr.
Melaye’s certificate scandal broke, the senator has sued SaharaReporters
for libel and defamation, making a court appearance at a Federal
Capital Territory court in Abuja. The senator has also today petitioned
the Inspector General of the Nigerian police claiming that the expose of
his shady academic records by SaharaReporters constitutes a
“cybercrime”.
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