Presidency finally breaks silence on alleged forged certificate

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has debunked claims that the certificate presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission l by President Tinubu to be able to contest the 2023 presidency was forged.

Ajayi, who issued a statement regarding the controversy on Wednesday, said there was nowhere in the deposition made by the Chicago State University that the institution admitted that the certificate presented to INEC by President Tinubu was fake.

Taking to his account on the X (formerly known as Twitter), the presidential media aide 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 a fake certificate to INEC does not make sense. A man cannot forge the academic records he possesses. You can only forge what you don’t have.”