No Evidence Tinubu Forged Chicago State University Certificate, Says BBC
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Global Disinformation Team has confirmed the authenticity of the certificate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted to INEC
- The BBC team said there is no evidence that the CSU certificate Tinubu submitted was forged
- According to the BBC investigation, the president's certificate marched three of the diplomas CSU released to Atiku Abubakar
United Kingdom, London - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Global Disinformation Team said there is no evidence that the Chicago State University (CSU) certificate that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was forged.
According to the BBC report, there was no evidence to support the claim made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, and one of his lawyers, Kalu Kalu, that the deposition and the diplomas released by CSU confirmed that the certificate Tinubu submitted to INEC was forged.
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The media organisation team said its analysis was based on three different Tinubu's certifcates:
- The original from 1979, which Tinubu has said he lost when he went into exile in the 1990s
- The second one that he submitted to INEC - supposedly a replacement diploma from CSU (it is similar to diplomas issued by CSU in the 1990s)
- The replacement certificate which CSU said is probably from the early 2000s and Tinubu never collected
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BBC also reported that the allegations that the Nigerian leader forged his CSU certificate were based on a comparison between the document submitted to INEC and the 1979 diplomas.
Also, their analysis confirms CSU registrar Caleb Westberg’s claim that the certificate Tinubu submitted to INEC looks like three of the diplomas CSU released to Atiku.
During the deposition, Westberg said the template of CSU's certificate had changed several times over the years, and any request for a new certificate would resemble the current template at that time, no matter when the student graduated.
In a nutshell, if Tinubu had reordered his certificate in the late 1990s, what he would have gotten would look like what was obtainable at the year he requested for a replacement.
According to the BBC report, three of the diplomas dating from the 1990s that CSU submitted were similar to President Tinubu's.
Is the Tinubu who attended CSU the same as the Nigerian president?
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Westberg said the Tinubu who attended the university is the same as President Bola Tinubu.
The CSU registrar said the school was bombarded with many enquiries between five and 30 daily about Tinubu.
He said the university never notified Tinubu about the flood of enquiries they received.
Tinubu’s coursemate at Chicago University swears affidavit
Meanwhile, Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-Nigerian leader Goodluck Jonathan, gave a fresh update concerning the authenticity of the certificate of Tinubu from the Chicago State University.
Omokri said a Nigerian man identified as Olajide Adeniji had sworn an affidavit that he was a classmate of Tinubu at Chicago State University.
Source: Legit.ng
