Former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Tuesday, berated Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over controversies surrounding his alleged Chicago State University certificate submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the 2023 Presidential election.
Oby in a tweet on X platform, said that the president would have saved the country from embarrassment, and removed all doubts from Nigerians, if he had voluntarily asked the Chicago varsity to publish his academic records.
In her words, “How much easier it would have been for Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to have saved the country and people the embarrassment of this Chicago State University, CSU, court case by instantly and voluntarily asking the institution to publish his academic credentials!
“How difficult could that have been?
How so less traumatic such exemplary disclosure to remove all doubts would have been for Nigerians.
“Like most Nigerians, it is profoundly embarrassing to field mocking questions on this matter that strikes at the heart of our national integrity from foreigners.
“Our Public Leaders of a certain genre despise transparency and yet it is an antidote to fiascos like this one.
“As Citizens, at the end of the 2023 electoral process that follows the judgement by the Nigerian Supreme Court @SupremeCourtNg , our work is cut out for us to uncompromisingly demand a root and branch reform of the entire Electoral @inecnigeria and Judicial Systems @njcNig.”
It would be recalled that Chicago State University in line with an order of a US court, Tuesday, released Tinubu’s academic records to his political opponent, Atiku Abubakar, who is in pursuit of reclaiming his alleged stolen mandate, after the Nigeria’s presidential tribunal verdict reaffirmed President Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 Presidential election.
Atiku, the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had requested the documents to back his allegation of forgery of CSU certificate against Tinubu.
The allegation of forgery was one of those dismissed by Nigeria’s presidential election court in the suit Atiku filed to challenge the election of Tinubu.
Despite the court’s ruling, Atiku continued his case at the US court, hoping to get official documents to back his claim and possibly include them in his appeal at Nigeria’s Supreme Court.
The university, on Monday, presented to Atiku’s legal team, a slew of documents connected to Tinubu’s education at CSU and copies of certificates with redacted names issued to other persons about the same time the Nigerian president finished from the school in 1979.
