Reuben Abati, former spokesperson for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said it is disturbing that the riddle surrounding the academic qualifications of President Tinubu has remained unresolved for more than 20 years.

He spoke on Arise Television’s The Morning Show which was monitored by QUEST TIMES correspondent.

Abati was reacting to a claim by one Durojaiye Ogunsanya, a public affairs analyst, who said he was a classmate of President Tinubu at the Chicago State University (CSU).

During a chat with TVC on Monday, Ogunsanya had said he graduated alongside Tinubu at CSU from the Department of Accounting and Business Administration in 1979.

However, an investigative journalist, David Hundeyin punctured Ogunsanya’s claim, saying the name doesn’t exist and couldn’t be found on the internet until now.

Abati while speaking on the issue recalled how former President Muhammadu Buhari assembled his old classmates together when some people claimed he never attended school.

He also recalled the case of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives when it was claimed that he never participated in the mandatory National Youth National Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.

“ This matter of President Tinubu’s academic qualification for more than 20 years since he was governor. Why is it that when he was governor of Lagos state, nobody showed up to say they were in school together? This Durojaiye Ogunsanya or what is his name was not around over 20 years ago. In any case, if you look at him, he looks quite younger than the president”.

“When President Buhari was said not to have attended secondary school, he gathered his classmates, they took photographs with him in the villa. Why is it so difficult for Tinubu to do the same?:”

“When it was Dimeji Bankole’s time, within a week, people who were in NYSC camp with him threw pictures out. Why should this one has to take us 20 years?”

“I think we have to do something about qualification. Anybody that does not have a basic degree and anybody whose classmate will show up after 20 years or whose secondary school classmates have to come to the villa to validate, that is ridiculous”.

“ In a country where some people have three Masters degree or double PHDs, why is it that it is these division two and division three people that will be the ones saying that they will be the ones to rule Nigeria?”.
https://thequesttimes.com/academic-controversy-why-cant-tinubu-assemble-his-classmates-like-buhari-reuben-abati-asks/

Tinubu did Remedial Studies
He was already an Adult

You mean rented classmates?

Don't you have a gay son to worry about

Abati is clearly not an exposed as his erudition suggests.

Do classmates not have to be willing participants in a photo op?

Speaking specifically about the US Collegiate system - where credits can be obtained from different faculties and/or transferred from other colleges - how do you assemble classmates from the 70s; when your only connection might have been sharing a few classes in one semester?

Why is it so difficult to understand that you cannot evaluate the past through the rose-tinted prism of social media, which makes it easier to maintain past connections today?

Nonsense
Nigerians should demand for good governance and not asking for classmates yada yada

When buhari did you guys still criticized him BAT don’t owe you guys any explanation the courts judgement is final to any of your opinion.

I am here to read comments.

Voltron Crew : Defenders of the Universe.

So, Tinubu should go to the United States to look for his former classmates just to satisfy the curiosity of his opponents?
Where is this written in our laws as one of the requirements for public office?
I used to respect this Abati man, I think something happened to him.

And did the Buhari haters believe him back then when he assembled his team of school mates for photo op? Did they not call him and uneducated illiterate till the end of his tenure? Will the haters stop hating even if all his classmates pay him a visit in Aso Rock?

After Buhari assembled his classmates, did you people still not claimed that he was clone? Did that help the situation of the country? Abati is a dumb human being

anonymous1759:
When buhari did you guys still criticized him BAT don’t owe you guys any explanation the courts judgement is final to any of your opinion.

Simple

I mean the answer to his question is simple.

It is because there was never one!

Is that the problem of Nigeria now? Some people are just plain stupid. We play too much in this country.

IconicR:
Nonsense
Nigerians should demand for good governance and not asking for classmates yada yada

Is that a confirmation that Tinubu got no classmates

You mean Tinubu was the only student in his class from primary to secondary and finally Chicago state university

Ofunaofu:


Is that a confirmation that Tinubu got no classmates

You mean Tinubu was the only student in his class from primary to secondary and finally Chicago state university

Election has come and gone
It's time to demand for good governance and not this back and forth

IconicR:
Election has come and gone
It's time to demand for good governance and not this back and forth

How can you demand for good governance from a fraudster, a notorious narcotics drug trafficker engaging in criminal state capture

One cannot give what he or she doesn't have

When Buhari assembled his classmates, the usual town criers still did not believe him, they'd rather stick to the crappy tales of Jubrin from Sudan. Nothing Tinubu will do to prove he went to that school, they will never accept it.


Atiku is doing his own witch hunting now, everywhere is quite, when everything is over, and Tinubu finally goes for Atiku's throat, God will punish anyone that comes here to cry political persecution. This thing is no longer political, it's personal.

Ofunaofu:


How can you demand for good governance from a fraudster, a notorious narcotics drug trafficker engaging in criminal state capture

One cannot give what he or she doesn't have

It is well

IconicR:
It is well

How did you arrive at that

IT CANNOT BE WELL WHEN FRAUD IS INVOLVED!

TILUMBU IS A SPECIAL STUDENT!

He doesn't have classmates in Primary school;
He doesn't Have in Secondary School;

And doesn't have in Chicago university!

HE WAS HOME SCHOOLED ALL THRU!

Christistruth00:


Tinubu did Remedial Studies
He was already an Adult

Even his primary school education was also remedial studies?

Let us assume he attended ilé kéwú as a muslim kid, what about his ilé kéwú mates?

I have a feeling Yarimo is one of those boys in the picture!

The best answer for this people is silent.

Zupay:


Even his primary school education was also remedial studies?

Let us assume he attended ilé kéwú as a muslim kid, what about his ilé kéwú mates?

I have a feeling Yarimo is one of those boys in the picture!

There are people whose entire Education was through Adult Education
Especially uneducated foreigners who then
travel to developed Countries

Pauladex:
The best answer for this people is silent.

I have always wandered why many SS people especially Calabar people just remain Silent and look at them when they start all their Wailing and Chest beating

They know them well

Ballotti:
You mean rented classmates?

U mumu no be small

EMEFIELE, OSENI RUFAI, ABATI AND PETOBI ARE CLASSMATES.

Even when Buhari assembled his classmates for a photo session did that stop then Igbos who are now Obidient slaves from saying that he has a NEPA certificate?


I Love Bola Ahmed Tinubu with or without a certificate

Hundye abi nha wetin be him name said is now a measure of Rubben intelligence and reporting so sad for our news media

Yoruba Ronu miscrants don't know how to attack reuben now, they wished he's igbo😂...bloody bigots!!!!

The reason is that Buhari have Classmate is hiding his own because he doesnt want his secret to open.

Christistruth00:


I have always wandered why many SS people especially Calabar people just remain Silent and look at them when they start all their Wailing and Chest beating

They know them well

many of them are here but you always tag them igbo because this a faceless forum.