Following a request by former vice president Atiku Abubakar, the Chicago State University has made President Bola Tinubu’s academic records public.
This came after an Illinois judge ordered the university to produce the academic records as requested by Atiku, the candidate for the People’s Democratic Party in the presidential election on February 25, 2023.
The university, on Monday, presented to Atiku’s legal team, a cache of documents connected to Mr Tinubu’s education at the institution and copies of certificates with redacted names issued to other persons about the same time the Nigerian president finished from the school in 1979.
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It also contained Mr Tinubu’s admission records, and a letter dated 27 June 2022 confirming that he attended the university from August 1977 and June 1979 majoring in accounting. The letter said Mr Tinubu was awarded Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with Honours on 22 June 1979.
The judge, Nancy Maldonado, gave the other after dismissing Mr Tinubu’s objection in the judgement.
Ms Maldonando dismissed Mr Tinubu’s objection to the 20 September decision of a magistrate judge of the court, Jeffery Gilbert.
The judge fully affirmed Mr Gilbert’s ruling, ordering the CSU to release Mr Tinubu’s academic records as requested by Atiku. She insisted Atiku had the right to have access to the records.
Responding to one of the requests it granted, the university said, “after diligent search”. it was able to locate and produce seven different certificates for Bachelor of Science degree it issued in 1979.
Atiku had apparently requested the documents to compare and contrast them with the one presented by Mr Tinubu as his for the 2023 presidential election.
