Presidency Insists Tinubu Vindicated In Certificate Saga
Presidency Insists Tinubu Vindicated In Certificate Saga
The Presidency, on Wednesday, asserted that President Bola Tinubu had been vindicated by the academic records made public by Chicago State University in the United States, which also validated his status as a graduate of the institution.
Temitope Ajayi, the Senior Special Assistant to the President for Media and Public Affairs, further asserted that the CSU never claimed in its evidence that the certificate Tinubu delivered to the Independent National Electoral Commission prior to the presidential election was fake.
Former Vice President Abubakar Atiku would on Thursday (today) file his application at the Supreme Court after obtaining Tinubu’s academic records per a court order from Illinois, Chicago.
Atiku, who contested against Tinubu in the February presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, is expected to file the documents he obtained from the CSU in furtherance of his election appeal at the Supreme Court.
Taking to his account on the X micro-blogging platform on Wednesday, the presidential media aide dismissed reports that the CSU disowned Tinubu in its deposition.
Ajayi wrote, “We should be clear. In the deposition made by the Chicago State University, there was nowhere the university said the certificate presented to INEC by President Tinubu is fake.’’
He added, “The university insisted under oath that President Tinubu graduated with honours and even at that, replacements for lost certificates are done by vendors, not the university.
“The claim that President Tinubu submitted a fake certificate to INEC does not make sense. A man cannot forge the academic records he possesses. You can only forge what you don’t have.”