- Noted that certificates were not issued at the time of graduation until one applied for them
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s lawyer, Wole Afolabi, blamed a mixup at Chicago State University for his client’s certificate indicating female.
Afolabi made the explanation when he appeared on Channels Television on Friday morning.
“The transcript that was provided by Southwest College indicated F. It was clear. All of the other particulars did match information of President Bola Tinubu,” he said.
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February election, during a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, highlighted reasons he insisted that Tinubu’s Chicago State University, CSU, certificate was forged.
“Now, the registrar was interviewed on why the discrepancies. He said the person applying for the school ticked the box of a male not a female and when the admission letter was issued it was issued to Mr Tinubu,” Afolabi added.
“When the question was put to Dr West Brown, he said it is not unusual for universities to mix up. He (West Brown) has been to several universities. It is possible.”
On the discrepancies in the signatures on the certificate, Afolabi said that certificates were not issued at the time of graduation until one applied for them.
He added that the person who issued the certificate Tinubu submitted to INEC might not have been in the university in 1979.
Meanwhile, the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has said his quest to unravel the educational qualifications of President Bola Tinubu is to ensure that “ground rules” for legitimate governance is respected and has, therefore, vowed to pursue the case at the Supreme Court to its logical conclusion.
Atiku, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, at a press briefing, yesterday, in Abuja, said his quest is to ensure the enthronement of truth, morality and accountability in public affairs.
Consequently, he called on the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi and New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, and other well meaning Nigerians to join him in the “campaign to enshrine probity, accountability and the basic principles of justice, morality and uprightness in our country and in our government.”
He claimed that in the aftermath of the 2023 presidential, he shut out a group of governors, who claimed to be the president’s emissaries.
“Immediately after the election I was told there was a delegation of governors who claimed they were sent by the president, but I did not allow them to get into my house. I did not. I would only drop the fight when the court rules. If the court rules that I am right, if the court rules that he is right, that is the end of the fight. At the moment we are at the Supreme Court and there is no any higher court than the supreme court.”