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President Bola Tinubu has claimed that inconsistencies on the certificate that Chicago State University gave to him are the result of a clerical error.
Tinubu’s lawyers, Oluwole Afolabi and Christopher Carmichael, claim that an unnamed university employee made a mistake about the date the university indicated on his recently granted certificate, resulting in “the appearance of differences.”
The assertion is made in their answer to a lawsuit filed by the former vice president Atiku Abubakar asking for the university to release Tinubu’s academic records.
A US court had given Tinubu uptil August 23, to make a formal filing on why his records should not be released to the former vice president.
The president claimed that he holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the Chicago State University.
But Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February presidential election, alleged that Tinubu’s academic records were forged.
“Unfortunately, in responding to the illegal and invalid subpoena, CSU made several errors,” the president’s lawyers said.
“CSU issued a new diploma for Bola A. Tinubu, but incorrectly wrote the date of graduation as June 27, 1979.
“The correct date was June 22, 1979, but that scrivener’s error – along with a change in the CSU logo, the font on the diploma, and leadership at CSU who signed the diploma created the appearance of differences between an earlier issued diploma and the one issued in response to the 2022 subpoena.”
The former vice-president is also seeking the credentials Tinubu submitted to CSU before he was admitted into the university
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