Questions were asked and answered, and at the end of the day, I have been cleared that there are no issues. Especially the issue that has to do with certificate that a petition was written, today that has been put to rest. My certificates are genuine and authentic. I think this is just a kind of mischief by some other aspirants who find me to be an aspirant to beat, trying to look for a way to discredit my person, but that has been verified and put to rest. 

“I think the issue is that it was a school they claim was established in 1980, and how is it that I was able to write my WASSCE in 1982? If you are a student of history, you will recall that in 1979, when the Governor of Lagos State at the time, Lateef Jakande, became Governor of Lagos State, most private schools were taken over and schools were built for the communities.

“Ikosi High School, which I attended, is one of the schools that were built by the regime of Lateef Jakande in the 1980s. So, it is on record that the school was established in 1980, and at that time I was already in Form ‘3’ in a private school. New Nation is in Ikosi, while Royal Comprehensive High School is in Ajegunle, Ikorodu, very close to Ketu. So all of us were moved to both New Nation and Royal Comprehensive High School, as well as some other schools that were affected by flooding. We were all moved to Ikosi High School Ketu, which was built by the government, and that was how we wrote our WASSCE in 1982 because we were in the first set.

“I was in Form ‘3’ at the time; it used to be five years, not now that you have six years for secondary school. So their question, the petitioner, is: How can a school be established in 1980? and we had a first set in 1982. The first set was supposed to be in 1985, but he didn’t take time to look at the history. So investigation has been conducted, the schools are still there, and the WAEC office is there, where you can actually verify the subject that I took, the year that I graduated, and the school.

“You just need to buy a scratch card and go to the website of WAEC; it will be there: Ikosi High School, Ketu, and my name will be there with the subjects that I took and the various grades. So it is clear to everybody that my certificate is authentic, and I actually graduated from that school in 1982.