The Bola Tinubu Campaign Headquarters on Saturday said the recent certificate forgery charges against the former Lagos governor stemmed from a 1999 incident involving Lagos politician Tokunbo Afikuyomi.

The campaign said Mr Afikuyomi was the one who falsely told the electoral department INEC in 1999 that Mr Tinubu attended primary and secondary schools in Ibadan, a claim that has now resurfaced ahead of the 2023 presidential elections.

The response came a day after Peoples Gazette reported that Mr Tinubu’s 2023 presidential nomination filings with INEC showed he did not obtain primary and secondary education, with his campaign admitting that Mr Tinubu did not disclose his early schools because the matter was controversial in the early 2000s.

The campaign, however, said the ruling APC candidate was exonerated of all charges after Mr Afikuyomi, a former senator, admitted that he mistakenly filled the governorship nomination forms for Mr Tinubu in 1999 and, therefore, responsible for the false claims before a Lagos parliamentary panel that probed the counterfeit academic records.

“Asiwaju was exonerated in the House of Assembly’s report because Senator Afikuyomi said he filled the form on his behalf then,” campaign spokesman Bayo Onanuga said in a statement to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday.

Mr Onanuga did not clarify whether or not Mr Tinubu could be held responsible under the law since he was the candidate whose signature appeared on the falsified document filed under oath.

Mr Onanuga said Mr Tinubu left out his primary and secondary education columns when he sought a second governorship term in Lagos in 2003.

Mr Onanuga said Nigerians should disregard perjury charges against Mr Tinubu because he has not held any political office since he concluded his two terms in 2007, until earlier this month when he clinched the presidential nomination of the ruling party.

“The same certificate he gave to INEC this year, he used in 2003 and there was no issue then. Why are they raising issues now?” Mr Onanuga added to NAN. “This was what happened that time and if in 2022, he (Tinubu) now drew blank on that session, what offence has he committed?”

The campaign dismissed the controversy as fueled by opposition elements of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Mr Tinubu had told INEC when he submitted his nomination forms on June 15 that he didn’t have primary and secondary school certificates, but he had two university degrees. However, the certificates from the tertiary institutions he attended had been stolen by state agents who breached his residence in Lagos during the brutal regime of Sani Abacha

https://gazettengr.com/just-in-tokunbo-afikuyomi-falsified-tinubus-academic-credentials-to-inec-says-campaign-headquarters/

First to c.

Tinubu is the man without certificate,simple.He is not eligible to contest.what else are we debating about? Inec or the relevant parastatal should give him the Akpabio,Lawan n Umahi treatment immediately.

wahala for Tinuthief

IPOB miscreants and cannibals, afikuyomi falsified or made mistakes? we know the bitterness of the warmongers, that caused the only civil war in this country, they filled up with hatred and bitterness, it is even a 15 unit course in every organ harvesting family in the poverty ridden capital of the landlocked south.

Femi Aribisala was right. Now they have disowned his claim of attending Government College Ibadan between 1965-1968 after they knew they couldn't find a classmate, junior or senior to vouch for him.

If I say Asiwaju, you say "Jagaban"!

His agbado and cassava brothers giving him from behind back to back wotowoto


Tinubu will never smell Aso Rock gate


Quote me anywhere

Tinubu's defenders oya there is more work to do.

One must work for his 30k stipend.
Seunmsg

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IamWonderful:
Baby factory criminals

Urchin, go and defend the thiefing druggie who goes about shitting on himself

ObosiUkwalla:


Urchin, go and defend the thiefing druggie who goes about shitting on himself

Call your parents well so they can wake up

IamWonderful:
Call your parents well so they can wake up

Tinubu is a drug sniffing cocaine addicted thiefing vagabond. Deal with it

IamWonderful:
IPOB miscreants and cannibals, afikuyomi falsified or made mistakes? we know the bitterness of the warmongers, that caused the only civil war in this country, they filled up with hatred and bitterness, it is even a 15 unit course in every organ harvesting family in the poverty ridden capital of the landlocked south.

What does ipob have to do with Tinubu’s forgery?

IamWonderful:
Call your parents well so they can wake up

APC just shot themselves in the foot.

Tinubu is a bastard drug dealing vagabond

IamWonderful:
IPOB miscreants and cannibals, afikuyomi falsified or made mistakes? we know the bitterness of the warmongers, that caused the only civil war in this country, they filled up with hatred and bitterness, it is even a 15 unit course in every organ harvesting family in the poverty ridden capital of the landlocked south.

Why are you so stupid? Where did you see IPOB in the article?

BlazinGlory40:


Why are you so stupid? Where did you see IPOB in the article?

I am not your parents ho ask them the first question, the second question, check the comment

Check your brain

This certificate saga looks like cruise but it's a disturbing story.

I personally don't care about who or what becomes president but just come clean.

Don't say you have this and that when you don't have it. It's just like lying in your CV about your qualifications and skills.

Only one man has issues with his age, certificate and origin.

Obi, Atiku and Tinubu combined cannot salvage this Nigeria. This country is damaged beyond repair. For God's sake why can't you all see it?

Me no go use my finger choose my oppressors.