Tinubu’s Certificate: Foreign Affairs Minister: “We don’t have time for frivolous issues”

He claimed that Muhammadu Buhari, a former president, had dealt with a comparable problem.

Yusuf Tuggar, the minister of foreign affairs, asserts that the administration cannot waste time on such “trivial matters” in view of the controversy surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s academic records from Chicago State University (CSU).

Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Tuggar said that some of the president’s most recent international events are unaffected by the scandal.

“Instead of addressing the pressing development challenges, there is a propensity to always try to divert people with such trivial issues. We can’t waste time on that, he declared.

He claimed that Muhammadu Buhari, a former president, had a comparable problem.

Nobody is wasting time discussing the credential requirements for someone who has held the office of governor of a state for two terms and participated in national politics.

You may recall that (previous President) Buhari went through a similar experience, when people questioned whether he had attended secondary school or not. Someone who was the captain and had classmates? He claimed that he was a head boy.

The minister asserted that no one had expressed interest in the affair during Tinubu’s most recent overseas gatherings.

“The international bodies and the foreign leaders with whom we have been corresponding clearly have no interest in wasting time on such.

“We pay no mind to that,” Tuggar said.

He continued by saying that Nigerians shouldn’t be fixated with certification because of the dire circumstances facing their country.

He instructed them to focus on growth instead.

We shouldn’t be wasting time worrying about a certificate, whether a T is missing or an I hasn’t been crossed off, given the economic difficulties we are currently facing. That shouldn’t be our main priority right now, he said.

After Atiku Abubakar demanded Tinubu’s credentials from the US university, he made his remark.

In an effort to strengthen his lawsuit contesting President Tinubu’s victory in the election held on February 25, the presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asked the US District Court in Northern Illinois to order the release of President Tinubu’s academic records from Chicago State University (CSU).

He had asked for the papers so that they might be used as evidence in Nigerian courts to prove that Tinubu had falsified a certificate that he had presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria for the 2023 presidential election and claimed to have received from CSU in 1979.

After he made this decision, a US court ordered CSU to give Atiku access to Tinubu’s academic records.

The university on Monday provided copies of certificates with names deleted granted to other people around the same time the Nigerian president graduated from the university in 1979, as well as a number of documents pertaining to Tinubu’s stay at the school, to Atiku’s legal team.

Additionally, it included Tinubu’s enrollment documents and a letter from 27 June 2022 attesting to the fact that he studied accounting there from August 1977 to June 1979. According to the document, Tinubu received a bachelor’s degree in business administration with honours on June 22, 1979.