The Presidency has said that the certificate submitted by President Bola Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC was authentic and not forged as insinuated by the opposition.
Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, said the Chicago State University confirmed that the President didn’t submit a fake result to INEC.
Ajayi noted that CSU affirmed under oath that Tinubu attended and graduated from the institution and that the school does not handle replacements for lost certificates.
He said there was no truth in the forgery claim, adding that no person can forge a certificate he already has.
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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.
Following petition by the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, CSU had released Tinubu’s academic records on orders of the court.
Atiku had requested the documents to back his allegation of forgery against Tinubu.
The allegation of forgery was one of those dismissed by the Presidential election court in the suit Atiku filed to challenge Tinubu’s election.
Editor Paul Akhagbemhe
