Chicago State University, CSU, in the United States of America, USA, has said that former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and presidential hopeful, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, indeed attended the university.
The officer in charge of official transcript requests, enrolment, and degree verification at the office of the Registrar at CSU, Beverly Poindexter, said this in a terse email in response to enquiry from The PUNCH on Tuesday.
Poindexter wrote, “Mr Tinubu did attend our university, however, if further information is needed, go to studentclearinghouse.org website to make a formal request.”
An earlier letter dated August 20, 1999 and signed by then Registrar of the university, Lois Davis, stated that Tinubu was its student between 1977 and 1979.
He had written, “Please be advised that Bola A. Tinubu did indeed attend Chicago State University from August 1977 through June 1979. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business and Administration, with honours on June 22, 1979. His major was Accounting.”
Recall that Tinubu had attached to his form CF004, submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, during his re-election bid in 2003 a letter of commendation from CSU, recognising his performance and “high scholastic achievement.”
Controversies have continued to trail Tinubu’s academic qualification for over a decade; as a recent article, which claimed that all the school the former governor claimed to have attended had disowned him.
Recall also that late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, had questioned Tinubu’s credentials and took the Nigeria Police Force to court for their failure to investigate him.
The Supreme Court had in its judgment of May 10, 2002, ruled that Tinubu could not be prosecuted by the police for alleged certificate forgery; and that the late legal luminary could not compel the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, to investigate Tinubu for alleged certificate forgery as he enjoyed immunity at the time.
