The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, to president Bola Tinubu, Temitope Ajayi, has said that the certificate submitted by the President to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was authentic and not forged as insinuated by the opposition.
According to him, the Chicago State University confirmed that the president didn’t submit a fake result to INEC.
In a post of his X page (formerly Twitter) Ajayi noted 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.
He said “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 cannot 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.