Caleb Westberg, the Chicago State University (CSU) registrar, has said the institution cannot authenticate the certificate President Bola Tinubu presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the 2023 general elections.
Peoples Gazette reports that this was based on the testimony of the registrar.
According to the report, the official repudiation of Tinubu’s certificate came at a deposition of school officials on Tuesday in Chicago.
According to the publication, an expanded transcript of the session is still being processed.
Westberg was said to have stated that Tinubu’s certificate, dated June 22, 1979, and tendered to INEC on June 17, 2022, was not issued by the school, and its administrators could, therefore, not authenticate its source.
Westberg, CSU’s registrar since November 2020, also said, during the deposition about 5.5 hours, that Tinubu did not apply for a replacement certificate, nor was he ever issued one.
Recall that Federal district judge Nancy Maldonado granted a final order for CSU administrators to turn over all documents relating to Tinubu to the school and sit down for deposition by an adversarial team of lawyers deployed by Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections.
The school had earlier insisted that Tinubu was its student, entering in 1977 and graduating in 1979.
