The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has reacted to the controversy surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s educational information from the Chicago State University, CSU.
Media Talk Africa recollects that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, within the final election, Atiku Abubakar, had approached the US District Court in Northern Illinois to compel the CSU to launch President Tinubu’s educational information to him.
The former vp argued that the doc would enhance his swimsuit on the Supreme Court difficult Tinubu’s election within the February 25 ballot.
The US Court, in its ruling, ordered CSU to launch Tinubu’s educational information to Atiku.
The college, on Monday, launched to Atiku’s authorized staff a cache of paperwork linked to Tinubu’s schooling on the establishment and copies of certificates with redacted names issued to different individuals about the identical time the Nigerian president completed from the college in 1979.
However, reviews emerged that the certificate the president obtained from the CSU was completely different from the one submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, prior to the election.
Reacting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was featured on Channels Television on Wednesday, mentioned the federal government is unbordered.
He referred to the allegations as mere “frivolous issues” geared toward distracting the administration of Bola Tinubu.
“There is a tendency to always try to distract people on such frivolous issues as opposed to facing the major issues of development. We don’t have time to waste on that.
“Nobody is wasting time about certificate qualification for somebody who has been a governor of a state, served two terms, and has been on the national stage as a politician.
“You remember that (former) President Buhari had to go through the same thing, where people were actually questioning whether he went to secondary school or not. Someone who had classmates and was the captain? He was a head boy,” he mentioned.
