There is no evidence that the diploma Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted to the country's electoral commission was forged, the BBC's Global Disinformation Team has found.

Allegations that President Tinubu's certificates were faked went viral on social media following the release by Chicago State University (CSU) of his academic records last week.

We have looked at some of the most widely circulated claims.

The release of the president's academic documents is the culmination of a judicial case filed in August by one of his main rivals in February's presidential election, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).


Mr Abubakar was hoping to have the victor disqualified after accusing him of falsifying the CSU diploma of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration awarded in 1979 that he submitted to the electoral authority (Inec).

To obtain evidence for his case in Nigeria, Mr Abubakar approached a US court in August, requesting it to compel CSU to release Mr Tinubu's academic records through a process called discovery, where the parties exchange information including documents ahead of a trial.

Mr Tinubu's lawyers opposed the discovery application, citing privacy concerns, but the US court decided it should proceed.

The documents requested by Mr Abubakar were:

A copy of any diploma issued by CSU in 1979
A copy of the diploma CSU gave to Mr Tinubu in 1979
Copies of diplomas with the same font, seal, signatures, and wording awarded to other students that are similar to what CSU awarded to Mr Tinubu in 1979
Documents from CSU that were certified by Jamar Orr, who was then a staff member of CSU, in the 12 months from 1 August 2022
In response to request one, CSU submitted seven diplomas covering different disciplines with the names of the students redacted. According to the university's registrar, these diplomas had not been collected by the students.

In response to request two, CSU stated that it could not find the diploma they issued to Mr Tinubu in 1979, because they do not keep copies of diplomas already collected by students.

In response to request three, CSU stated that it produced for Mr Tinubu a replacement diploma dated 27 June 1979. It also released diplomas awarded to other students that bore similar font, seal, signatures and wordings as Mr Tinubu's diplomas.

In response to request four, CSU submitted other academic documents initially attested to and released by Mr Orr.



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No evidence in your mind not generally

Ok

The corn community are the dullest set of humans in whole wide world.

Wetin concern bbc with CSU? Is BBC a school tinubu attended ? Is BBC a law court?


CSU under oath publicly denied the certificate submitted to INEC in court. You did not contend with CSU. You run to hire bbc media.
I am 500% sure that the useless twitt is from one hired or paid backroom staff .
Tell tinubu that BBC is not CSU.

Wasting money in media houses is self destruction.

The Faster tinubu comes out clean, the better for him and his lineage. The embrassment is now worldwide.

No sane organization will associate itself with a matter that was unleashed in the court.

Tinubu has corrupted and bastardized the brains and conscience of some persons.When you hear the excreta that comes out from their mouth, you begin to imagine how hopeless the products that come out from them will be.

Atiku in the mud

We know the forge master has been buying lobbyist all over the world to launder his image. His image is in tatters.

The man said if this result is released. it will cause him irreparable damage.

Dumb followers are online shouting nothing dey happen

It will be interesting when he travels next for the next world leaders meeting,
He will be avoided like plague

I urge everyone to read BBC's unbiased submission.

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1712045726425829727?s=19

Anyone that read that deposition in FULL...reading the Atiku's lawyers part and also read Tinubu's lawyer's part will also come to this conclusion that Forgery was not established.


I agree with this BBC's analysis

BBC will hear from obidients.

I can't believe people still doubt Tinubu certificate after everything the CSU registrar said

The premise upon which Atiku approached the matter was wrong.

He approached CSU to establish that Tinubu did not attend.

The school has confirmed his attendance of the school and have not stated that the certificate was forged.

Do you know why the Supreme Court will throw out Atiku's forgery accusation? Simply because it is the maker of the document who can establish forgery.

Atiku needs to bring the Registrar of CSU to write a letter that the certificate was forged.

But Atiku thinks Supreme Court will accept his allegations just because he says so.

Don't be as intelligent as Atiku.

Atiku left the group chat.

Feintline:
The corn community are the dullest set of humans in whole wide world.

Wetin concern bbc with CSU? Is BBC a school? Is BBC a law court?
Did tinubu attend BBC?

I am 500% sure that the useless twitt is from one hited or paid backroom staff and has nothing to do with the BBC as an organization.

The Faster tinubu comes out clean, the better for him and his lineage. The embrassment is now worldwide.

No sane organization will associate itself with a matter that was unleashed in the court.

Tinubu has corrupted and bastardized the brains and conscience of some persons.When you hear the excreta that comes out from their mouth, you begin to imagine how hopeless the products that come out from them will be.

Keep shut. You would have been celebrating them if they had claimed he forged his certificate. Headless mob.

The school that issued that certificate testified under oath that he indeed graduated from the school. They also said transcript is more important than certificate in America yet you're calling him a certificate forger. Did the school deny him? Even if he got the certificate from a third-party vendor (which is legal in the US), did he alter anything?

I dunno why some of you cannot reason for yourselves. You wait for the likes of Hundeyin and that Seun of Asleep TV to reason for you. It's unfortunate.

Bad news for haters

garfield1:
Atiku in the mud

Go to gaza or you no be mu-mu again?

Wey dat imbice boy wey dem catch him papa with drugs ?

Obi and his illiterate

Roboto11:
There is no evidence that the diploma Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted to the country's electoral commission was forged, the BBC's Global Disinformation Team has found.

Gbam! End of matter

donphilopus:


Keep shut. You would have been celebrating them if they had claimed he forged his certificate. Headless mob.

The school that issued that certificate testified under oath that he indeed graduated from the school. They also said transcript is more important than certificate in America yet you're calling him a certificate forger. Did the school deny him? Even if he got the certificate from a third-party vendor (which is legal in the US), did he alter anything?

I dunno why some of you cannot reason for yourselves. You wait for the likes of Hundeyin and that Seun of Asleep TV to reason for you. It's unfortunate.

1. We are not in the US. This is Nigeria and Certificates are very important.

2. CSU does not use a third-party vendors to replace its certificates.

3. CSU confirmed he graduated from the school, but that the certificate he submitted to INEC was not issued by them and as a matter of fact, they just saw that type of certificate for the first time during the proceeding.