Reports has it that Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has begged a United States (U.S.) court to hide his Chicago State University (CSU) records from Nigerian bloggers, according to a report by Peoples Gazette.
The report revealed that the Nigerian leader said he’s afraid that reporters would use the records on the said certificate to tarnish his reputation.
According to an online news platform, Peoples Gazette, Tinubu, whose presidential victory is being challenged at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, is afraid his university records, when made available to the public, would be further used to weaken his reputation.
The Nigerian President fiercely opposed an application for an order to direct discovery of his CSU credentials, noting that previous records the school released in 2022 to Nigerian lawyer Mike Enahoro-Ebah were used as weapons by ‘bloggers to attack’ his character.
Atiku had asked the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to subpoena CSU into releasing Tinubu’s records to clarify glaring inconsistencies in his gender, graduation date, age and so on but the president is fighting desperately to block the application.
While responding to a previous subpoena in 2022, CSU had provided Ebah with records that showed a certain Bola Tinubu, born March 29, 1954, who attended the school at the same period as Tinubu claimed in the 1970s, was a female.
He also recently expunged his primary and secondary education from his records after it was discovered that the primary and secondary schools he listed under oath in his 1999 run for Lagos governor did not exist anywhere in Nigeria.
Atiku believed the requested records would show which early and high school papers Tinubu submitted to CSU before he was admitted to study there.
CSU’s response was first published on independent journalist David Hundeyin’s website in 2022 where bloggers picked it up and circulated it to almost every Nigerian.
