Chicago Saga: American Professor Reveals ‘Valid’ Certificate Tinubu Should Have Submitted to INEC
- US-based Professor, Farooq Kperogi, has again waded into the ongoing dispute between the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and President Bola Tinubu
- The controversy is regarding the president’s academic records from Chicago State University (CSU)
- Kperogi said the incumbent Nigerian leader made a mistake by not submitting the CSU’s official diploma to Nigeria's electoral body, INEC
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Chicago, USA - Farooq Kperogi, a prominent US-Nigerian columnist, has said that although President Bola Tinubu was “careless” to have submitted a document printed by a third-party vendor to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), it is incorrect for anyone to say he “forged” the certificate (called a “diploma” in America).
Kperogi said Tinubu should have submitted CSU’s official diploma to INEC in 2022.
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Certificate saga: "Tinubu was careless", Kperogi
The columnist stated these in his piece on Saturday, October 7.
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He wrote:
“I admit, though, that Tinubu was careless. He is in Nigeria where certificates have a different meaning and valence from the United States. He should have submitted CSU’s official diploma to INEC. But what he did does not, by even the most feverish stretch of conspiratorial fantasy, rise to the level of a Salisu-Buhari-type criminal forgery.
“Unlike Salisu Buhari who forged a University of Toronto degree that he didn’t earn, Tinubu attended and earned a degree from Chicago State University.
"What Tinubu did with his certificate is pointlessly self-harming in reputational terms in Nigeria, but it’s not illegal.”
Chicago State University: Kperogi defends Tinubu
In an earlier report, Legit.ng reported that Kperogi said President Tinubu did not commit forgery in the legal sense of the term.
Kperogi stated that certificates are ‘legally worthless’ in the United States. He said considering Caleb Westberg, the registrar of the CSU validated President Tinubu’s studentship under oath, corroborated by his transcript and former classmate, “that is all that matters”.
Certificate saga: Dalung shades Tinubu
Legit.ng also reported that Barrister Solomon Dalung, a former minister of youth and sports, who served under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, shared his academic certificates — in an apparent jibe at President Tinubu.
Taking to his known X (formerly Twitter) handle on Saturday, October 7, Dalung bragged about being an old student of the University of Jos (UNIJOS). He said he surrendered his academic records for public scrutiny.
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