The Director of Army Public Relations, Olajide Laleye, said this while preparation columnists in Abuja on Tuesday.
Mr. Laleye said that the section made on the Nigerian Army Form 199a at the purpose of documentation after Buhari was appointed as an officer, demonstrated that the previous Head of State acquired the West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1961.
"With credits in pertinent subjects: English Language, Geography, History, Health Science, Hausa and a pass in English Literature.
"Not one or the other the first duplicate, affirmed genuine duplicate (CTC) nor proclamation of aftereffect of Major-.Gen. Mohammadu Buhari's WASC result is in his individual record.
Mr. Laleye said the armed force holds the resigned senior officer in high regard and regard and would not be a gathering to any discussion encompassing his qualification for any political office.
He said that suffice to express that Mr. Buhari climbed consistently to the lucky rank of Major General before turning into the Head of State of the nation in December 1983.
"The media buildup on the resigned Buhari's accreditations and various solicitations made by people and chip in bodies to the Nigerian Army on this issue have required that we give the truths as contained in the resigned senior officer's administration records.
"Records accessible demonstrate that Buhari connected to join the military as a structure six understudy of the Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, on Oct. 18, 1961.
"His application was rightfully embraced by the foremost of the school, who likewise composed a report on him and prescribed him to be suitable for military commission.
"It is a practice in the Nigerian Army that before applicants are shortlisted for charging into the officers' unit of the administration, the determination board confirms the first duplicates of accreditations as exhibited.
"There is no accessible record to demonstrate that this methodology was followed in the 1960s," Mr. Laleye said.
On the late CNN report concerning issues of kitting, gear, debasement and medicinal treatment, Mr. Laleye said there was no Army on the planet where faculty did not buy extra outfits and packs to increase those formally allocated to them.
"Appropriately, the armed force has not neglected to issue outfits and packs to its faculty intermittently.
"Like different armed forces, the Nigerian Army has throughout the years, built mandate shops in all its dormitory and cantonments where outfits and packs are sold at financed costs to its staff from recompenses effectively given in their pay slips.
"Additionally the Nigerian Army has an extremely practical social insurance conveyance framework in the nation. It completely subscribes to the National Health Insurance plan (NHIS) and this is utilitarian in all its wellbeing offices.
The armed force representative said that the armed force had made undoubted operational increases in the North-East of late, accordingly rubbishing the claim that Boko Haram had out-gunned it.
He said that the CNN would do well in the event that it radiated its searchlight on the abominations of Boko Haram terrorists against the guiltless and helpless Nigerians, as opposed to the Nigerian Army.
Mr. Laleye said the armed force would stay concentrated on its mission to free Nigeria of terrorism and revolt.
To that end, he said, the armed force had started the usage of the "broad operational , managerial and logistical choices'' arrived at amid the 2014 Chief of Army staff Annual Conference.
He said in no far off future, Nigerians would start to see exceptionally positive results as far as security, especially in the North-East and the country.
(NAN)
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