You can’t forge what you have, Presidency speaks on Tinubu’s CSU replacement certificate

The presidency has said conclusion by some analysts the certificate President Bola Tinubu presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission in order to run for president in 2023 is forged.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, in a statement regarding the controversy on Wednesday, pointed out that the Chicago State University (CSU) did not admit that the certificate presented to INEC by President Tinubu is a forgery anywhere in its deposition.

He said the university affirmed under oath that Tinubu attended and graduated from the institution and that the school does not handle replacements for lost certificates.

Recall that there had been various analysis with the conclusion that the the Nigerian President presented a forged degree certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission when he filed his paperwork to lead Nigeria in June 2022.

However, Ajayi in his submission said there is no truth in such claims as no man can forge a certificate he already possesses and it is only what you don’t have that you forge.

Taking to his account on the X micro-blogging platform, the presidential media aide wrote, “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.”