A staff member of Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has said that the claim of Mr Tinubu using a fake university diploma for the country’s electoral body is not true.
At a meeting on Tuesday, a person from Chicago State University (CSU) stated that Mr. Tinubu finished his studies at the university in 1979.
But the official also said that the university cannot confirm if Mr. Tinubu’s diploma is real because they don’t keep copies of student diplomas.
He also said that the signature, logo, and seal on Mr Tinubu’s certificate that he showed to Inec were different from those on the other certificates given out by the CSU when Mr Tinubu graduated.
Atiku Abubakar asked a court in the United States to make CSU give out Mr Tinubu’s school records. Mr Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar both ran for president in Nigeria’s February elections.
He planned to use the documents as evidence to show that Mr. Tinubu’s election should be cancelled because he supposedly gave Inec fake university documents.
Temitope Ajayi, who works for Mr Tinubu as his media and publicity assistant, said on Wednesday that the accusation that President Tinubu gave Inec a fake certificate doesn’t make sense because Mr Tinubu already has a genuine university certificate.
He also mentioned that the new certificate Mr. Tinubu showed to Inec was legitimate because the CSU official verified that “the university does not issue replacements for lost certificates, vendors do. ”
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