Public affairs analyst Durojaiye Ogunsanya has asserted that he and President Bola Tinubu were classmates at Chicago State University (CSU).
In the midst of ongoing debate surrounding Tinubu’s academic history, Ogunsanya made this declaration.
During an appearance on a TVC program, Ogunsanya disclosed that he and Tinubu completed their studies in the Department of Accounting and Business Administration in 1979.
“We met in a school in Chicago State; we were in the said department, College of Accounting, Business and Administration, with major in accounting, and we were in the same class together and graduated. He did attend the university and graduated in 1979 as I did. So I’m here to testify that he did attend the University, and he was a good student,” Ogunsanya said on Tuesday.
Explaining further, he said, “I was a bona fide student. I first went to engineering school and nautical engineering. Okay. Then I decided no, it’s not for me. I changed college. That’s when I transferred. The beauty of it all in America is they make it easy for everybody. There is an opportunity for anybody. You can start from scratch and build yourself up. And you do it even with high school GED, they call it you take the exam. Once you pass it. You can apply to any college that go to junior college, which is for two years there you can transfer your credit to a four-year college.
“I think that’s what the president did. He first went to Richard J College and then transferred the credit to a four-year college, university. I didn’t go to college. I went to another junior college. Then I transferred to State University. And I met him there. When I met him there, one of the professors told me ‘Are you from Nigeria?’, I said ‘Yes’. ‘Do you know Bola?’ I said ‘No, I don’t know him’. He said ‘Oh, you need to know Bola.’”
The public affairs analyst stated that he and Tinubu were members of the Accounting Society and that the latter was elected president of the club in 1978/79.
