Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has urged a US federal judge to ignore records suggesting a woman was admitted into Chicago State University in the 1970s.
Tinubu claims his Nigerian political rival, Atiku Abubakar, is trying to sandbag him in the ongoing case over academic documents. Abubakar is asking the court to grant enough subpoenas to compel records and depositions from CSU amid controversy on Tinubu’s admission and graduation. The school has continued to present contradictory documents, with at least two different certificates issued in Tinubu’s name in the public domain.
Additional records of admission submitted by CSU under the 2022 subpoena showed that a certain Bola Tinubu, who was admitted to CSU in the same 1977, presented a Southwest College result belonging to a female.
The Nigerian politician intends to use the records in his ongoing judicial challenge to Tinubu’s election earlier this year, arguing that the president’s several instances of falsified records should be enough to nullify his eligibility to continue in office.
