The Presidency has dismissed arguments that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The reaction was made by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, on Wednesday after Chicago State University (CSU) confirmed that President Tinubu graduated from the school.
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.
According to him, there was no truth in the forgery claim, adding that no person can forge a certificate he already has.
“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,” Ajayi posted on his X account.
Recall, CSU had released Tinubu’s academic records on orders of the court after petition by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku, an opponent of Tinubu in the last election, 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.
