Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for president in the 2023 election, has said that the alleged inaccuracies found in President Bola Tinubu’s certificate support his finding.
According to Platinum Times, Tinubu’s attorneys acknowledged errors in the academic certificate that the President had submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday in response to Atiku’s petition in a federal court in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and they placed the blame for those errors on the clerk of the Chicago State University (CSU).
The former vice president claimed in a statement on Saturday that documents provided by his lawyers in the US and Nigeria revealed unsettling anomalies and logical fallacies in Tinubu’s university academic credentials.
For instance, one of the documents is the certified true copy of the certificate Tinubu submitted to INEC on June 17, 2022. According to Atiku’s attorneys, “this, purportedly, is the certificate issued to him by Chicago State University (“CSU”) showing that he attended the school and evidencing the degree he was awarded.
“In another document is a copy of a letter dated September 22, 2022 from Mr. Caleb Westberg, the Registrar of CSU attaching a copy of the certificate issued to Bola Tinubu in recognition of the degree he was awarded by the university.
“There is another document, which is a copy of the certificate forwarded by Mr. Westberg, as mentioned above, in response to a subpoena that was issued to CSU in respect of Bola Tinubu’s academic qualifications and achievements.
“There is also a copy of the bio of Dr. Niva Lubin-Johnson. Dr. Lubin-Johnson was the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of CSU from January 2001 to December 2002.
“Also is a copy of the bio of Dr. Elnora D. Daniel. Dr. Daniel was the President of CSU from 1998 to 2008.”
However, the interesting thing upon further examination of these documents is that while they all speak to the same subject, Tinubu’s academic qualifications from the Chicago State University, they all bear different details.