The Presidency has insisted that the certificate President Bola Tinubu offered to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was not solid.

Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, mentioned the Chicago State University confirmed that the president didn’t submit a fake outcome to INEC.

Ajayi famous that CSU affirmed beneath oath that Tinubu attended and graduated from the establishment and that the college does not deal with replacements for misplaced certificates.

He mentioned there was no reality within the forgery declare, including that no particular person can forge a certificate he already has.

Posting on X, Ajayi wrote: “We should be clear.

“In the deposition made by the Chicago State University, there was nowhere the University said the certificate presented to INEC by President Tinubu is fake. The University insisted under oath that President Tinubu graduated with honours and even at that, replacements for lost certificates are done by vendors not the University.

“The claim that President Tinubu submitted fake certificate to INEC does not make sense. A man can not forge the academic records he possesses. You can only forge what you don’t have.”

Following petition by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, CSU had launched Tinubu’s educational information on orders of the court docket.

Atiku had requested the paperwork to again his allegation of forgery in opposition to Tinubu.

The allegation of forgery was a kind of dismissed by the presidential election court docket within the swimsuit Atiku filed to problem Tinubu’s election.