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Femi Fani-Kayode, director of media, Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, has denied the allegation that he altered the result released by Muhammadu Buhari’s school last week.

One of the questions over the result is the allegation that Hausa Language was not a subject in 1961 when Buhari wrote his West African School Certificate examination.

A certain Sodiq Alabi, who claimed to have sent an email to Cambridge Assessment to seek clarification on the issue, alleged that Fani-Kayode altered the response that was sent to him and sent false information to media houses, in order to mislead the public into believing that Buhari’s result was false.

But Sufuyan Ojeifo, the special assistant to Fani-Kayode, dismissed the allegation, saying it is an indication of the desperation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for power.

“Fani-Kayode never issued a statement in his capacity as spokesperson for the PDP Presidential Campaign, neither did he address a press conference or briefing where he referred to the Cambridge document in question,” he said.

“He also did not validate the content of the said document on any occasion. The allegation of manipulation against Chief Fani-Kayode is, therefore, indicative of desperation by the opposition who should have spoken on the issue of whether or not Buhari has a certificate or not.”

He added that Fani-Kayode did not know of the existence of the Cambridge email document and what the content was all about and has not been in touch with the institution to request for any information in respect of the issue in question.

Ojeifo said Fani-Kayode only stated that the result was illegally procured.

“What he has done, especially during his last press conference on Gen. Buhari’s published statement of result, was to make assertions to the effect that the statement of result was forged,” he said.