The Presidency has reiterated that the certificate provided to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by President Bola Tinubu was not forged.
Temitope Ajayi, Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, stated that Chicago State University certified that the president did not submit a forged result to INEC.
Ajayi stated that CSU confirmed under oath that Tinubu attended and graduated from the college, adding that the school does not handle certificate replacements.
He denied the forgery claim, claiming that no one could forge a certificate he already possessed.
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.”
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.