The Nigerian Presidency has come out to insist that the certificate President Bola Tinubu which was presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was not forged as being claimed by members of the opposition.
Mr. Temitope Ajayi who is the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Tinubu said the Chicago State University confirmed that the president didn’t submit a fake result to INEC.
Ajayi pointed out 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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Posting on X, 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. 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 fake certificate to INEC does not make sense. A man can not forge the academic records he possesses. You can only forge what you don’t have.’
Africa Today News, New York reports that 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.
Meanwhile, Atiku is expected to file his findings at the Supreme court today.