The University of Port Harcourt has reacted to the
opposition party’s allegations that President Godluck Jonathan did not
finish his doctorate degree program at the institution.
The university deputy registrar (Information) of the university, Dr. William Wodi, in a statement forwarded to the PUNCH newspaper, said President Jonathan concluded his first degree, Masters and Ph.D in the university.
According to him, the President was one of the 422 students who were admitted in 1977 to the Department of Zoology, now named Animal and Environmental Science.
The registrar further noted that Mr. President enrolled into the Postgraduate (PGD) program and obtained a Master of Science degree in Hydrobiology and Fisheries in 1985, adding that Jonathan became a Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology in 1995.
It would be recalled that after the presidential candidate of the All Progessive Congress (APC), General Mohammadu Buhari cleared the air on his WAEC certificate controversy, the allegation automatically switched to president Jonathan as the opposition party and other concerned Nigerians asked the President to present his PHD thesis or certificate.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, at the Ikorodu rally of the APC, said President Jonathan’s doctorate degree as well as Vice President Namadi Sambo’s degree in architecture are too weak to reflected positively on their style of governance.
The university deputy registrar (Information) of the university, Dr. William Wodi, in a statement forwarded to the PUNCH newspaper, said President Jonathan concluded his first degree, Masters and Ph.D in the university.
According to him, the President was one of the 422 students who were admitted in 1977 to the Department of Zoology, now named Animal and Environmental Science.
“The authorities of the University of
Port Harcourt are aware of rumours that are now spreading like
harmattan fire over the doctoral degree status of President Goodluck
Jonathan. The allegations have neither legs nor grounds to stand on and
we hope that its purveyors will now rest in silence. For the avoidance
of doubt, the authorities of the University wish to state without
equivocation that Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, as he then was, was among 422
students, who matriculated in 1977. He was admitted into the then
Department of Zoology, now Animal and Environmental Biology in the then
School of Biological Sciences, now a Faculty in the new College of
Natural and Applied Sciences. At the end of a successful residency
period, Jonathan was awarded the Bachelor of Science (Upper Division) in
1981. It was rumoured among students that the young university was
reluctant to award the First Class to its pioneer class in an effort to
consolidate its academic profile,” Wodi said.
The registrar further noted that Mr. President enrolled into the Postgraduate (PGD) program and obtained a Master of Science degree in Hydrobiology and Fisheries in 1985, adding that Jonathan became a Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology in 1995.
“From the above account, it has
become obvious that Dr. Jonathan successfully completed the prescribed
courses and programmes as specified by the Senate of the University of
Port Harcourt to earn his degrees from the university. We have
absolutely nothing to hide as an institution that has a statutory
mandate to advance the frontiers of knowledge,” Wodi said.
It would be recalled that after the presidential candidate of the All Progessive Congress (APC), General Mohammadu Buhari cleared the air on his WAEC certificate controversy, the allegation automatically switched to president Jonathan as the opposition party and other concerned Nigerians asked the President to present his PHD thesis or certificate.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, at the Ikorodu rally of the APC, said President Jonathan’s doctorate degree as well as Vice President Namadi Sambo’s degree in architecture are too weak to reflected positively on their style of governance.
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