Do we simply never learn? General Buhari experienced the same thing. While he was being held in custody, his certificates were misplaced. He handed over an incorrect replacement GCE certificate.
Yet no court ordered his removal. Why? because the certificate’s validity depends on the fact of the graduation. Not the certificate serves as proof of graduation. It is comparable to marriage. Your religious ceremony is really a formality.
On the day your union was officially recorded at the registration, you were married. The document you received from the church is merely symbolic.
The maxim of equity states that “Equity Regards As Done What Should Have Been Done.” This is a well-established legal notion.
Learn to distinguish between assumption and fact and reasoning and emotion. Bola Tinubu is not someone I like or support. I do, however, hold a law master’s degree from England. Justice of the Appeals Court was my late father. I will be what the Itsekiri language refers to as a “akpa shishan” if, despite my education and experience, I am unable to understand the legal situation or if I am forced to lie by a crowd.
Read the deposition’s transcript. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a male and the same person currently holding the position of President of Nigeria, attended Chicago State University, and that is all that Tinubu’s attorneys need to demonstrate. Any certificate he provided as evidence is valid once they have established that.
I once collaborated with a president that I didn’t agree with. Nobody on Earth is too significant for me to not look them in the eye and tell them the truth. The moment their registrar, Mr. Caleb Westberg, swore under oath that the same person who graduated from Chicago State University is the same person who is now President of Nigeria, the controversy in Chicago was put to rest. The Supreme Court will always value that over popular opinion!
